Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overseas bases in Western Europe, North Africa, Turkey, etc. will shortly be within range-if not now-of the U.S.S.R.'s first-generation intermediate-range (600-1,200-mile missiles and can be knocked out without warning...
...something like a miracle," said Cyprus' harried British governor, Sir Hugh Foot, whose nation had stood aside while the other parties to the dispute-Greece and Turkey-finally sat down together. Last week, after 55 hours of hard and friendly bargaining in neutral Zurich, Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes and Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis came down the main stairway of the Dolder Grand Hotel beaming at each other like a couple of old school chums. As they toasted each other in champagne, their staffs put the finishing touches on a 200-page outline constitution...
...repercussions of the Cyprus quarrel had grown too dangerous to tolerate for either Turkey or Greece, whose amity is precarious at best, had only been painfully re-created after the killings and mass transfers of their two populations after World War I. The Turks, now threatened on their southern flank by Nasser's annexation of Syria and by Communist infiltration in Iraq, needed friendship with Greece In order to secure their western flank. The Greeks, after winning little sympathy In NATO, had failed to get a strong U.N. resolution on Cyprus last December. This apparently was the turning point...
...Cradle. Under these pressures-and under discreet but persistent prodding from the U.S.-both Greece and Turkey agreed to pull in their horns. Menderes abandoned his unrealistic demand that Britain partition Cyprus between its 400,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish inhabitants. Karamanlis made the greater sacrifice of renouncing the dream of enosis-union of Cyprus with Greece...
...hedge against Turkey's twin fears of a Communist Cyprus or of Cyprus united to Greece, Menderes and Karamanlis agreed to put a cat's cradle of strings on Cypriot independence. Barred from ever becoming part of Greece, Cyprus would probably become a member of NATO, would be allied to both Greece and Turkey and, besides maintaining its own army, would be garrisoned by a combined Greek-Turkish-Cypriot force. Britain, which has made Cyprus its main military bastion in the eastern Mediterranean, would keep its bases on the island. In securing such guarantees for the Turkish minority...