CYPRUS: Heat & Haggling

The Greeks have a good case in Cyprus (TIME, Jan. 9), but they are not content to leave it at that. Day and night last week, as they have been doing for months, the official Athens radio and the excitable Greek press piled on faggots of falsity and fancy to feed the fire of the Cyprus problem.

"The British run torture centers in Cyprus where they beat their prisoners, inject them with truth serums, extract their teeth and fingernails," cried Athens' Voice of the Fatherland radio, beamed to turbulent Cyprus. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, said one newspaper,...

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