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Cyprus: Anger from All
Friday, Apr. 09, 1965


Makarios admitted in an interview that Soviet tanks and missile-launching equipment have reached the island, but no missiles. At week's end, Makarios was still officially silent on the U.N. report because, he said, it was being studied by his Council of Ministers. Hot-tempered General George Grivas, commander of the Cypriot National Guard, was more outspoken. Denouncing the U.N.'s proposals, Grivas delivered a fiery speech at the parade's end in which he claimed that the Greek Cypriots had beaten 40,000 British troops in the fighting that began a decade ago and then had been robbed of their victory by "international diplomacy." The only solution, roared Grivas, was union with Greece. Then he thundered: "Our decision is taken. Either complete freedom or a holocaust!"

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