TALKS ON CYPRUS
Makarios Sets Conditions
(Rec. 8 p.m.) ATHENS, April 25. Archbishop Makarios said today that he was prepared to start negotiations with the British Government provided Britain made a. “gesture of goodwill, such as lifting the emergency measures in Cyprus.
“If any execution takes place in Cyprus it will be difficult to restrain the people,” he told a British Socialist M.P., Mr Fenner Brockway. Eight Cypriot Greeks were sentenced to life imprisonment today for being in possession of arms and ammunition last January. This is the biggest single batch of convictions under the emergency regulations so far.
A ninth Cypriot Greek was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for furthering the aims of terrorism by harbouring the eight. A Turkish policeman and two Greek Cypriots were shot and wounded by gunmen at Khartcha village, north Cyprus, last night. Reduction of Troops The British Defence Minister (Mr Duncan Sandys) said in Nicosia that he hoped before very long to make some reduction in the number of British troops in Cyprus. He was answering a question at a talk with reporters before leaving for Malta in a Comet airliner.
In a prepared statement, Mr Sandys said that while in Cyprus he had examined, among other
matters, “special problems which will arise if the continued political deadlock in the island should make it necessary to consider partitioning Cyprus.” Asked about the use of Cyprus as a nuclear base, Mr Sandys said that Britain had built up a stock of atom bombs, and some aircraft based in Cyprus were capable of carrying atom as weir as conventional bombs. It was Britain’s policy in building up nuclear strength to deter war and not to wage it. It was as much in the Cypriot peoples’ interest as that of people in any other part of the free world that Communist domination should be resisted.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 11
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