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There were some who argued that, if left alone, Cypriots. weary of EOKA terrorism, would accept the Radcliffe proposals but it was doubtful whether any politician on Cyprus dared support it. Archbishop Makarios could afford to, but he was still in exile. Whatever the British say they mean to do, the Radcliffe proposals might in practice be the opening gambit in the classic game of British colonial withdrawal, the traditional first steps of a process which transformed onetime Jailbird Jawaharlal Nehru into the Prime Minister of an independent nation. "But," concluded one diplomat gloomily, "in India Gandhi was able from time to time to make compromises with the British. Makarios is no Gandhi."