Selection: Michalis Katsigeras

KARAMANLIS AND CYPRUS: Yesterday’s speech in Parliament by Foreign Minister Spyros Theotokis on the Cyprus issue and a statement by Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis in response to an intervention by the leader of the Liberals, George Papandreou, gave the government the opportunity to present convincing arguments regarding its management of the issue. (...) The prime minister revealed that the current government had on December 5, 1955, written to the government of Great Britain to ask for the immediate and unconditional recognition of the Cypriot people’s right to self-determination, full and democratic self-government and to set a date for the exercise of that right of self-determination. MIMIS PLESSAS: A large crowd is expected tonight at the Petit Palais Hotel (the new name given to the Hotel Grande Bretagne due to the dispute over Cyprus) for the annual writers’ ball that will be entertained by Mimis Plessas and his orchestra. GREECE-USSR: Patras, 6 - The Soviet Union has made an order for 2,000 tons of raisins.