September 10, 1957
CYPRIOT STRUGGLE: Nicosia, 9 – As preparations are being completed for the struggle to have the Cyprus issue included on the agenda of the UN General Assembly, an important event has taken place in Cyprus. After six months of silence, the leader of the National Cypriot Fighters’ Organization (EOKA), Digenes, has reappeared and, in a proclamation, has accused the British and the Turks of conspiring, rejected British mediation in the dispute between Cyprus’s Greeks and Turks and called for a calm response to provocations by the British and Turks. He promised that in due course EOKA would make the appropriate response. In the meantime, the British occupation government of Cyprus has distributed a leaflet accusing Greek-Cypriot youth of actively involving themselves in the liberation struggle on the island and has laid the blame on Digenes, the Greek government and Archbishop Makarios. At the same time, Makarios, in a message to the island’s Greek youth to mark the beginning of the school year, congratulated them on their nationalism, emphasizing that their country placed great hopes in them. He condemned the British administration’s restrictions on Greek education in Cyprus.
