Word: truce
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...peace of the brave. What does this mean? Simply this: let those who opened fire cease fire and return without humiliation to their work and their families. The old warrior's procedure, long used when one wanted to silence the guns, is to use the white flag of truce. And I say that in this case the combatants would be received and treated honorably...
With that warning signed, Colonel George Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground, EOKA, last week ended his truce with the British authorities who rule embattled Cyprus. It came as news to many Britons on the island that there ever had been a "truce." In the previous week one British soldier had been killed and four wounded in a seven-hour gun battle in which they killed four EOKA men holed up in a barn near Famagusta; on the streets of Nicosia, a British airman walking hand-in-hand with his wife was murdered by three EOKA gunmen...
Three bullets snapped through the sultry Cyprus air. Dead on the pavement lay Police Superintendent Donald Murray Thompson, a crumpled symbol of the decision last week by the rebel EOKA to end its jittery truce with the British military government. Next day, on the streets of ancient, walled Nicosia (pop. 60,000), the only unarmed Britons abroad were those who had to be: reporters for the jaunty Times of Cyprus (circ...
Hundreds of leaflets bearing this terse message fluttered through the streets of Nicosia one evening last week just before curfew. Men and women, waiting until British 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...
...anti-Soviet uprisings of 1956 was to release Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski from detention and give to Poland, which is 95% Catholic, a degree of religious freedom unknown in any other Communist nation. That was a concession won, not a benefit conferred, and ever since, uneasy has been the truce between church and Communist state...