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Still undaunted, the Socialists moved another censure, this time regretting the Tory government's failure to reach an earlier settlement of the Cyprus dispute. Nye Bevan twitted the Tories for dealing with Archbishop Makarios as they had done previously with the Indians and the Irish. "We said we could not 'shake hands with murder,' and then we did shake hands," said Bevan. "We did the same with Nkrumah. Honorable members opposite put him in jail." Came a cry from the Tory benches opposite...
Greek Against Goliath. "Your name is a Doric column in the pantheon of the great heroes of our glorious nation," said Archbishop Theoklitos, Greek Orthodox Primate of Greece, presenting Grivas with the ancient Greek symbol of victory, a silvered laurel wreath. Grivas was weeping. "Small Cyprus fought Goliath," he said. "It did not succumb." He had consented to a peace that brought self-government to Cyprus but forbade it enosis (union with Greece). He handed the mayor of Athens a small bag of earth taken from his mountain lair, and said emotionally, "This bit of soil, soaked with the blood...
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...expected that the Archbishop of Hartford will come to New Haven tomorrow to discuss the accusation that the alleged molesting of marching units from Sacred Heart Academy and Albertus Magnus College constituted an anti-Catholic demonstration...
Threatened Allowance. Next day, as U.S. citizens and embassy personnel waited behind police guards in a La Paz suburb to learn whether they were to be evacuated in Panagra planes standing by on Peruvian airfields. Siles called for another demonstration. Flanked by La Paz's archbishop, the armed forces chief and his Cabinet, he stood on a palace balcony before a throng of 25,000 which included a brass band. Again he called for calm, and again he was disobeyed. Led by Trotskyite Boss Victor Villegas, 200 men stormed police guarding the embassy. The police fired tear-gas shells...