Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maneuver. The British demanded-and got-sovereignty and access rights to their military bases on the island as the jump-off point for British operations in the Middle East. But by the terms of the settlement the British were forced to give up another shred of empire without much say about how it was done...
...could not be heard in the general congratulations. Five years ago, when Britain abandoned its Suez base and retreated to Cyprus, a Tory minister assured everyone that Cyprus would "never" be released to independence. The Conservatives had also argued in the past that Greece and Turkey should have no say in the solution of a problem that, after all, concerned a British crown colony. Yet here were the British accepting the terms of a settlement handed down by the Greeks and Turks, ending British rule in a British colony. The Makarios whom the British had regarded as an ecclesiastical bushwhacker...
Segni's critics say that his chief attraction, aside from his kindly personality, is his scrupulous avoidance of vigorous action. But his patchwork Cabinet may be around awhile nonetheless. Among his fellow politicians he is known as "the cracked vase"-an allusion to an Italian proverb which says that a cracked vase often outlasts an uncracked one because everybody handles it so tenderly...
...long as the French were in control, the rivalry between the territory's two leading politicians was kept in hand. The flamboyant Abbé Fulbert Youlou-a Roman Catholic priest who is forbidden to say Mass but still wears a soutane-has long favored keeping a firm tie with France, once blurted in a fit of candor that is rare in Africa these days: "We will need French aid until the year X." His longtime rival, Socialist Jacques Opangault, dreams of the day when the former territories of French Equatorial Africa will be united in a federation...
After weeks of woolly press speculation that she would marry the 39-year-old Shah of Iran (TIME, Feb. 2), Italy's tall, lissome Princess Maria Gabriella, 19, at last had her own say on the matchmaking. "I'll never marry a man I do not love," she told Rome's II Messaggero. "Since I do not love him, I will not marry the Shah of Iran, assuming he has indicated such a wish." But the press quickly offered another candidate: suave, blond Don Juan Carlos, 21, son of the Spanish Pretender, who danced attendance...