Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three weeks ago, when EOKA offered to suspend its two-year-old campaign of terrorism if Britain would free Makarios. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cabinet renewed a longstanding offer to end the Archbishop's exile provided that he publicly urge his countrymen to abandon violence. Makarios' reply was that of a man who clearly felt he held the stronger hand. Said he: "I appeal to EOKA to declare the cessation of all operations, provided that the British government show a spirit of understanding by simultaneously abolishing the present state of emergency [in Cyprus]." He also insisted...
...Hard Way. "No need to be squeamish," urged London's conservative Time & Tide. "He is a gangster dictator and must in the end be dealt with as such." Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, heading for the Gaza frontier, threatened a renewal of war. In a Chicago speech, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington declared: "There will be no real peace in the Middle East until Nasser is out of power...
Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan prides himself on being a blunt man, and he was blunt when he addressed a Conservative Party political rally at Leicester last week. Said he: "There is no difference between Socialism and Communism, except this: Socialism is soft, Communism is hard; Socialism is pink, Communism is red. Socialism gets you down bit by bit by a kind of anesthetic process. It might be called mercy killing. Communism just knocks you in the head...
...deal with. As governor of Cyprus, he was flatly opposed to negotiating with the archbishop under any circumstances; in private conversations he has reportedly referred to Makarios as a cheat, liar and fraud. After two hours of argument, the two men hurried over to 10 Downing Street where Prime Minister Macmillan, just hours before his departure for Bermuda, had hastily assembled a few top ministers. Without stopping for lunch, the conferees battled on until midafternoon, were finally forced to defer the government's scheduled statement by 24 hours...
Letting the rest of the world go by, Britain's ex-Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and wife Clarissa basked on the sunny strand of New Zealand's subtropic Otehei Bay, a favorite operating base for deep-sea fishermen. Eden, still bedded periodically by his gall-bladder ailment, left Britain in mid-January...