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...House of Commons last week, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd announced that the British government had lost patience with Cypriot insurgents on the British-held Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Said tall, tough Lennox-Boyd: "As to the future, the first and most important duty is to restore law and order. For this we have the resolution and the forces, and it will be done...
Hoping to pull off a coup by personal diplomacy, British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd flew to Cyprus last week to try to win a settlement from the island's Ethnarch, Archbishop Makarios. The bearded archbishop was plainly in no mood for compromise. "The British," he said, "must exclude any possibility of further retreat by us no matter how tough their stand may appear...
...agreement reached in London was the signal for Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd to introduce a federation bill in the British Parliament before the summer recess. And it set in motion preparations for the 1958 election of the first legislature. Such far-reaching agreement did not go unmarked; the delegates voted unanimously that henceforth the birthday of the new nation, Feb. 23, would be known as Federation...
...defense and security forces, Prince Abdul Rahman asked the British for full independence. The urgency of the Malayan situation led the British to take the risk. In a cream and-gilt room of London's Lancaster House, Chief Minister Rahman sat down with British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd and signed an agreement which will give Malaya complete internal self-government, including control of the police and defense forces, in 18 months...
...Said Lennox-Boyd: "It is not a victory for either side. It is a recognition both of Malaya's new status and of our common interests." As a next step to further the common interest, the British plan to remove rubber and tin, chief exports of Malaya, from the list of strategic materials barred to Communist countries. By trading with Red China, the British argument goes, Malaya can become prosperous enough to resist Communism...