Letter from London

Cyprus and Lebanon—and Nasser’s Soviet Arms

The immediate Greek response to this plan was that it wouldn’t do and Britain must think of a better one. The Turks were more cheerful about it but hardly more amenable. The British Government might well have felt indignant and depressed at such a perfunctory rebuff had it not been entirely expected. The politicians in Athens and Ankara had long ago taken up positions too extreme to allow of compromise.