In the House of Commons last week, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd announced that the British government had lost patience with Cypriot insurgents on the British-held Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Said tall, tough Lennox-Boyd: "As to the future, the first and most important duty is to restore law and order. For this we have the resolution and the forces, and it will be done."
After five months of negotiation, Archbishop Makarios (see box), ethnarch and spiritual leader of the Cypriot Greeks, had flatly rejected a final British offer of self-government (with the British retaining control of the island's security, defense and...
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