Near Eastern Sores

E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

Hardly had the situation around Israel settled down to yet another uneasy armistice than Cyprus became critical once more. We owe the Cyprus problem to the British “sense of fairness,” which led London to place the Turkish minority on the island squarely under Greek rule. The Turks, from whom the island was taken in 1878, protested this form of “decolonization” and go on demanding that Cyprus be restored to Turkey. Greece invokes majority rule and self-determination. The islanders themselves tend to be indifferent toward attitudes in the big world, steeped as they are in their own troubles.

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E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

Hardly had the situation around Israel settled down to yet another uneasy armistice than Cyprus became critical once more. We owe the Cyprus problem to the British “sense of fairness,” which led London to place the Turkish minority on the island squarely under Greek rule. The Turks, from whom the island was taken in 1878, protested this form of “decolonization” and go on demanding that Cyprus be restored to Turkey. Greece invokes majority rule and self-determination. The islanders themselves tend to be indifferent toward attitudes in the big world, steeped as they are in their own troubles.