July 1, 1958
EVROS BORDER INCIDENT: Thessaloniki, 2 – An incident took place yesterday in response to the arrest by Turkish military guards of a Greek fisherman near the Evros River. Three members of the National Security Brigade from the village of Feres entered Turkish territory and, taking officials there by surprise, freed the Greek fisherman, Ilias Koukoumanis. LEBANON CRISIS: London, 26 – Lebanese President Camille Chamoun said in a radio statement today that if the United Nations observers did not succeed in putting an end to the intervention by the United Arab Republic (Egypt), he would make a fresh appeal to the UN Security Council and ask for the help of the free world and the United Sates, which, according to the president, have the right to intervene wherever their vital interests are being threatened. Referring to the risk of Soviet interference, he ruled out that likelihood, since it is the United Nations that was offering its assistance to Lebanon. MACMILLAN PLAN: London, 26 – The British government’s plan for Cyprus was given the tacit approval of the House of Commons today. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox Boyd said the plan could «heal a wound that weakens the unity and the prestige of the free world.»
