Here you are Babnaniot. Enjoy once again.
“Grivas himself wrote that 'through military action we did not seek to defeat the
English but to coerce a political solution according to our desires'. This
comment goes to the heart of the matter. In retrospect
the aim of the EOKA
struggle was rather sophisticated, which required political prudence and an
impeccable sense of timing. That is an important factor to be borne in mind when
assessing the reasons why it failed.”
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“Essentially the aim of EOKA's violence was
to nudge the British from the
position of 'never' they had publicly taken in the summer of 1954 to negotiations that would pave the way to enosis.”
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“THE EOKA campaign, therefore, had to be a balancing act between striking a sense
of urgency into the British over Cyprus and avoiding the destruction of
Greco-British relations, as a solution would be decided by negotiations between
the two states.”
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“Makarios misses an opportunity
NEVERTHELESS, despite the strategic mistakes of the EOKA struggle the Greek
Cypriots were given an opportunity to achieve their original aim. It occurred
during the negotiations of Makarios with the Governor, Field Marshal Sir John
Harding, when the British offered the promise of self-determination at some
unspecified moment in future. But the talks collapsed.”
"This was the first and last time that the British talked with the Greek Cypriot
leadership, hoping to achieve the pacification of the Island through a political
settlement.
It was also the only time when the British government conceded,
theoretically at least, the possibility of unitary self-determination,
fulfilling one of EOKA's original objectives. This proposal was made at a time
when certain officials were contemplating to 'tell the Turks that 18 per cent of
the [Cypriot] population cannot have an unqualified veto on the remaining 82 per
cent'.Unwittingly Makarios turned down the Harding proposal and failed the litmus test that the British policy makers had set up for him. His refusal to co-operate
with the British was fatal. From that moment the British government resolved it
could no longer deal with the Greek Cypriots or the Greek government."
And now, Bananiot, in order to answer your lies that EOKA was subdued since 1957, take this:
“It was a message reiterated
on 22 January 1958: 'If terrorism broke out again in
Cyprus,
we could not afford indefinitely to devote military resources to its
repression.'
This warning was conveyed to the Greek government and Makarios in
February 1958 when a British delegation traveled to Athens for consultations and
was later repeated in May. When the British Cabinet discussed the Macmillan Plan
in that month, it concluded:
If, however, the plan failed and it became necessary to seek a final solution of
the problem of Cyprus on other lines, we should regard ourselves as bound by our
previous assurances in regard to the application of the principle of self-determination.
In other words if EOKA were to oppose the plan through widespread violence to
further destabilize the Island further, the British would be forced to divide
Cyprus and withdraw.”Capishe, Babaniot?? Neither the British army (40.000) nor the treasons of AKEL managed to subdue EOKA.
http://britains-smallwars.com/cyprus/Da ... iracy.htmlP.S. The author of the article, in his effort to prove that the EOKA struggle DID fail, proves exactly the contrary with above admissions. If you insist to the contrary I will gladly post the whole article with comments of mine, paragraph by paragraph but under another thread since this is about whom to elect president.
P.S. 2 I will be back with the Annan Plan provisions about the BB.
