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THE CHINA MAILĄ, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1980.
"ENOSIS" BRITAIN'S PROBLEM IN CYPRUS
Nicosia, May 22.
|One explosive word-Enosis-moy prove a major difficulty for Britain in this island Colony of Cyprus. To Cypriots, Enosis means union with Greece. To Landon it means a recurrent political headache. The pain will sharpen during May.
Two rival delegations from the island plan to pound tables in Athens, Lon- don and Lake Success. Their demand: that Britain get off this East Mediterranean base she bargained from Turkey in 1878 and allow Cyprus to become a Greek province.
Front backs the other.
both the Church-sponsored_ma- fority (anti-Communist) and the Communists.
The Church will have none of
Misloading vote
this.
:
Behind one delegation is the Wider understanding of Enosis powerful Autocephalous is important to America and the (Greek Orthodox) Church of West. The issue is as intricate as Cyprus. The openly-Com-Cyprus lace, threaded with Com- munist National Liberation munist strategy, nationalism, re-
ligion and anti-colonialism.
Craggy Cyprus sits 70 miles Britain as answered in ad-offshore from Syria and Turkey. A Church spokesman said: "Wo vance:, no, the question is closed. It has been recognised ** A
know the Communists. We ignore strategle key to the East Mediter them. They want Enosia for Fancan and Asia Minor since private ends, not because of pat- Richard the Llon Hearted's riotism. But give us Enosis and Crusaders threw up turreted there will be no Communists on battlements here.
Cyprus except 20 or 30 per cent Greeks Immigrated to Cyprus | professional "leaders. These we about the time Helen of Trey be- would exile. gan to worry about wrinkles.". To- day four-fifths of the population is Greek in language and culture, Yet foreigners have always ruled Some Londoners have to Cyprus. Egyptians, Assyrians, think twice about going out Persions, Romans, Byzantines, Last January the Orthodox into the streets in certain areas Knights Templar, Venetians, Turks Church ran a plebiscito on Enosis. because of anti-and British have held sway in Of those who voted, 97 per cent of the city
(Communist and non-Communist) Jewish feeling there, Lon-
favoured union. don delegate told the annual Important base
ANTI-JEWISH PROPAGANDA
IN LONDON
Nottingham, May 21.
conference of British Trades Councils here, today.
Trades Councila Pro 1ocal affiliations of the various trade unions operating in each place.
The delegate, Mr. D. Mostyn, declared that "Sieg Hell" (the Nazi salute) was being shouted in certain areas of London to in. cite violenco ogainst racial minorities.
"Do you know what it is like to have to instruct your children not to pass through certain streets in London for fear their physical safety?" he asked the conference.
the
the
Certain Jewish youth clubs had to organise convoys when time came to go home and some people were afraid to go out into
streets, he added. The conference condenated the of racial and religious spreading hatred propaganda as contrary to the principles of the trades union movement.
tur.
German
now 66
Gelsenkirchen, May 21,
The Dahnbunch colliery ex plosion death toll mounted to 65 tonight when two more minare died here In' Knapps; chaite Hospital.
The explosion that Injured coores of other workers was
·damarlized »me one of the worst mine disasters In German hie. tory, HompitaL officiate here wald 42 workpre were admitted to the hospital, 12 of whom were dismissed, but zoma of those remaining suffered serious Internal In- Juries and heavy burns.,
One hundred and thirty rainers' word believed to have
boon in the mino at the time of the bleat. Mine officials såld the cauro of the disastar WAL
not known, but resoun workers believed a short cir- cuit might have touched off otcaping gas-United Press.
GERMAN WIVES PRAISED
"It is because we are the only while people in the world under foreign colonial rule that we have so many people who call them-sald today that if Germans are selves Communists."
Cologne, May 21 A West German Federal official
better dressed these days, "thanks are due to our wives and not to
Ebelbooks,"
our
Wildermuth.. Minister for Reconstruction, was replying to criticism frequently expressed abroad that West Germany was spending money too freely luxuries.
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Eight days of investigation here indicates that popular support for Why is the Cypriots' cry for Encals probably is ncover 65 than Enosis Internationally important? D7 per cent, however.
Britain's jet fighters scream up Voting was not secret-and few He told an audience of rept from Cyprus airfields to dominate | Cypriots dared go
Ger that West Owners against the estate the East Mediterranean and safe-Church publicly.
many's post-war air of prosperity guard Buez' Northern approaches. Many merchants pay lip-ser-stemmed largely from the abilliy
Cyprus could become
major vice to Enests but privately prefer of wives to economise and to alllod base if Russia stabbed Into | Britain's sterling Lo Greece's "make new out of old" with Turkey of Iran...Dombers based drachma.
their needles and thrend,--Asso- here could rango over the
ciated Press. Balkans and South Alusela.
Here are America's cars in the
FILM CONGRESS The 11th Congress of Cultural
Berne, May 21.
Nationalism strong Government employees, mostly and the 36,000 Turkish cold war-a big U. a. monitoring Gree
Com-minority boycotted the plebiscite. station which eavesdrops of
munist radio stations behind the The Turks, along with the small Iron
Curtain and in the USSR British and Armenian minorities, and Documentary Films ended
voice fear Greek domination,
here today with a resolution to itself. It also records the of the Arab Middle East.
Yet over-all, all but a few die-found- an International union for Copper-rich Cyprus Mines Cor-hard Britons would concede that the exchange of flims. poration, biggest enterprise in the Enosis has a majority of Cypriots Delegates from 20 countries Colony, is American owned. behind it?
attended the eight-day Congress, Immediately important. Cyprus
Othe
the Union would The almost complete lack of
alms of demands for union could topple Cypriot self-rule adds fuck to the be: co-ordination and develop- unstable Greece into a new do-pro-Greek are. Britain abolished nient of each member
country'n mestic crisis-just what America even the Legislative Council with production possibilities and does not want.
its limited powers, after a stormy education of public opinion on revolt in 1931. Since then Enosis- ways in which documentary and
finis con minded Cypriots have spurned cultural
help inter- offers to reinstate it. They want national understanding-Reuter. no half-way measures. So muni- cipal councils are the highest form of self-government.
acTM
It also expressed alarm at the growth of "this despicable tivity" in recent months and call- ed on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress to press for strong Governinent measures. --Reuter.
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Britain long was Greece's best friend internationally. Now U.S. influence is dominant in Athens but Britain remains a powerful force. So far no Greek Govern- ment has dared to defy British in- fluence and reach for Cyprus.
Half-a-hundred Interviewe underscore, that whatever the profound romane, given, the basic drive for Enosia is nation- | silam. Most Cypriots are Greck.
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But Greek Press and public have A long clamoured for Enosis. vocat new Cypriot plea for union could mean political disaster to
A chafing at Britain's stern im- All Your Days-You Will Remember the Government which Ignored it.
port controls, which some Cypriots Communism enters in here. feel wreck their export trade. While paying p service
Haired of alien rule by Greck Enosis, Greek politicians are wary people, whose culture was old when privately of annexing 482,000 Britons carried stone axes. people of whom between 25 and "We boycott the British socially, ...It's 1950's Rarest 45 per cent depending on the but, we are not anti-British. We source are avowedly pro-Com-are pro-Cypriot, pro-Greek. Bri- munist.
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King Paul's armies have just Anished painting over the Red spots on Greece's map. They do
not want new ones.
tain loses more in friendship by refusing us union than she gains,” sald Xenophon Coumbarides, sec- retary to the Ethnarchy (Greek Orthodox Church) Council.
"Nations are inter-dependent," Reds shouted for self-rule and added the influential newspaper opposed Enosis Then their editor, M. Stavardinides. "In case leaders-returned-from-a-top-level
Before January, 1940, Cyprus
Communist conference in Prague.of war, the Allles could have bases Immediately, Cypriot Communists here because Greece always will be pro-Allied. And those bases became the loudest proponents of would be surrounded by a friend- Enosis,
ly instead of unfriendly popula- tion."
Red strategy
Future coursom
It is belleved that Moscow
How do Cypriots expect events strategists calculated: Commun- to develop after the Bishop of ism can succeed easier if Cyprus Kyrenia and his three-man delega- 1s just another neglected Greek tion are abrand? They say: province than if powerful Britain rules.
would replace it.
1. Greece either will formally ask Britain to cede Cyprus, or the An almost comio aspect of Greek Government will fall. They Communist cries for union bellove a pro-union government. that Grence has long shoved Reds Into prison or in front of Airing squads. Union could mean death for the pro-Enosis Com- munists. The
answer.
Communists have a glib
2. I Britain refuses, as ex- pected, Cypriots will go to the UN through some friendly power. There, they predict, Russia will exploit the issue because_Com- munist strategy favours Enosis, This could increase Red strength on Cyprus..
"The present Monarcho-Fascist Greek Government is only a tem- porary phase. After Enosis--na-
3. Should the UN reject Enosis, tional Uberation-we can work to make all Greece 4 people's De- Gandhi's old weapon of non-cu- mocracy," Bald tough, British-operation will probably be in-
troduced.
There might be open Myrna Loy Robert Mitchum trained Ezekias Papioannou, I disorders. (The British discount
buted Cominform representative this possibilty.) on Cyprus.
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