March 29, 1957
END OF MAKARIOS’S EXILE: London, 28 – Great Britain decided today, after a year and 20 days, to free the ethnarch of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, who had been arrested on March 9, 1956 and exiled to the island of Mae in the Seychelles. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, ruling over a decisive period of decolonization in the UK, made the announcement tonight to cheers from both sides of the House of Commons. No one had been apprised of the contents of the announcement beforehand. Also released along with the archbishop were his fellow exiles Bishop Kyprianos of Kyrenia, Archdiocese Secretary Polykarpos Ioannidis and Faneromeni Cathedral Rector Stavros Papagathangelou. Mr Lennox-Boyd told the House that the government was prepared to issue passports to the leader of the National Cypriots Fighters’ Association (EOKA) and all its members so that they may leave the island. HERRIOT’S GREECE: Lyon, 26 – Former French prime minister Edouard Herriot, who has died at the age of 84, passionately loved Greece and its ideals. He wrote a volume about Greece titled «Under the Olive Tree» in 1930. The tome chronicled his impressions of a country whose ancient foundations for democracy he admired.
