Cyprus
Sir, —With an as-you-were in Egypt the question is: Will Britain vacate Cyprus? As the strategic key to Canal Zone reoccupation recently published as proposals passed between Sir Winston Churchill and President Eisenhower in 1953 our retention of the island seems no longer essential. King Paul’s decoration of Archbishop Makarios more than suggests official Greek connivance with his. aims of Enosis. Will, then, the men who decide foreign policy in Britain agree to cut our losses and leave Cypriot destinies to other arbiters? One suggestion would throw the whole problem into Mr Dulles’s lap. As a watch-dog base upon the “soft underbelly” of Soviet defence in Hungary Cyprus might seem to America to have a usefulness which has passed us by. Further unnecessary worsening of GrecoBritish relationship could result in grave constitutional repercussions within the Commonwealth.— Yours, etc.,
FRANCIS Wm. HEAL. April 24, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28261, 26 April 1957, Page 3
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145Cyprus Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28261, 26 April 1957, Page 3
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