Word: marshallized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the Altar. Field Marshal Harding's nonchalance failed to conceal the fact that, two weeks after Archbishop Makarios' exile, his efforts had not yet brought about sufficient orderliness to make Cyprus the reliable military base the British desire. Last week four terrorists, their heads covered by black woolen hoods, walked into St. George's Greek Orthodox Church in the town of Kythrea during a service and shouted to the 40 worshiping villagers: "Stand up and face the wall!" Then, with a single pistol shot, one of the hooded men killed Lay Reader Manoli Pierides while...
...will get you, even in your bed." Thus the Greek Cypriot underground, in a mimeographed leaflet signed "The Leader Digenis," gave Britain's Field Marshal Sir John Harding its warning several weeks ago. Last week at a luncheon at Nicosia's Government House, an intelligence colonel told Sir John flatly that the underground was plotting his early assassination. Scoffed short, peppery Soldier Harding: "If they do attempt it, they will have to deal with my army, and that is no trifling matter...
Under the Mattress. Next day Sophocleous did not turn up for work. Her suspicions aroused, the housekeeper reported his odd action of the previous day. Guards rushed to the field marshal's bedroom...
...major fighting. On Kathara Theftera (first day of Lent in the Greek Orthodox calendar), well-wined Greek Cypriots met up with Turkish Cypriots in the village of Vasilia, staged a free-for-all which injured 21 people. Fearful of demonstrations on Greece's issth Day of Independence, Field Marshal Harding put the main towns of the island under curfew for the whole day, i.e., confined 165,000 Cypriot people to their homes. At week's end, while British police were still searching for Neophytos Sophocleous, Sir John Harding discharged his remaining twelve Greek Cypriot servants (many of them...
...Harvard Band gained a few hours of leisure as the St. Patrick's Day parade was postponed for the second week in a row, this time "indefinitely." Boston Chief Marshal Joseph F. Feeney is considering the idea of holding the parade April 7, but Mayor Hynes expressed doubts that the "spirit of the holiday could be recaptured at that late date...