Word: limassol
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...goat prancing near me and could not resist. I have never tasted anything so good." Grivas kept constantly on the move-and eventually moved from the barren mountains into the towns. He spent the better part of the last two years shifting from house to house in Limassol (pop. 36,500), right under the noses of the British. A trusted deacon in the Limassol church passed notes for Grivas to black-veiled women at prayer, for relay to EOKA-men in the mountains...
...military patrols rounded the corner, furtively scooped up the leaflets, eagerly read the truce offer of Colonel Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot EOKA. Next day the British government -still seething at the recent murder of Lieut. Colonel Fredrick Collier as he watered his flowers at his bungalow near Limassol-was officially silent. But the nameless leader of the Turkish Cypriot underground movement, T.M.T., also agreed to call off all attacks "until further notice." Cyprus, which has seen 127 killed in gangland-type slayings in less than two months, breathed a sigh of relief...
Tension in Cyprus took a new turn last weekwhen a grimy little two-stack transport flying the French tricolor putinto Limassol harbor. Moody Cypriots stared with astonishment as 1,400 blue-bereted paratroopers and 1,300 airmen moved without armed protection towards the tent city hastily built for them by theBritish near World War II Tymbou air base. If that did not give a clue to what was happening, the dispatch of another ship did. It was a 3,226-ton tanker named Bacchus, and it gurgled toward Cyprus with a full cargo of wine. The French had arrived...
...dockside as Armitage murmured to an aide his last words on Cypriot soil ("I do hope George remembered my umbrella") and departed. The smaller, non-Communist Cyprus Confederation of Workers joined the Communist union and paralyzed the island with a 24-hour strike. Idle workers stoned British troops in Limassol and tried to mass in Nicosia's square, but the Tommies and police fixed bayonets, swung clubs, fired tear gas, arrested 209 demonstrators, and generally let it be known that with the coming of Fighting John Harding, Cyprus' era of tolerant umbrellaism was over...
...Storrs snored in his big bed in Government House, in the inland capital of Nicosia, chattering Greeks (who never seem to go to bed) worked themselves up to riot. Some were inflamed by Orthodox priests who told of a "fiery cross" raised against British rule on the heights of Limassol two nights before. According to the priests, the Orthodox Patriarch of Cyprus (who jealously guards his 1,000-year-old right to sign his name in red ink) had proclaimed the end of British rule and the union of Cyprus with Greece "because the people will...