CYPRIOTES TELL BRITISH TO GET OUT
With the arrival of fresh contingents of British troops February 20, anti-British and anti-American sentiment rose to a new pitch in Cyprus,
Cypriote papers said February 22, that Archbishop Mekarios had filed ea protest with the British government and that the Cypriote government was considering demanding a session of the UN General Assembly to consider the situation in cease the Security Council failed to take a decision thet would respect the independence and territorial integrity of Cyprus.
The semiofficial newspaper Phileleftheros, in an editorial entitled "The Imperialists," meade a biting Comparison between the speeches of Soviet representa ative Fedorenko and U.S. representative Stevenson at the Security Council on the Cyprus situation. "Bach word of the former," said the editors, "is the voice of justice itself, while each word of the latter is the voice of the voracious imperial~ ist appetites,"
Another newspaper, the widely circulated Mach, in a similar editorial, accused the U.S. of standing benind The Turks," i.,e., of participating with Britein in stirring up nationalist strife in the island.
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summed up succinctly by Dr, Aristote Dervis, leader of the Opposition, "It will be.necessary, sooner or later, for Great Britain to evacuate its bases," he said.
This demand is receiving increasing expression in the Greek Cypriocte press, They want the British totake their troops and get out of Cyprus,
_U.S. interest in Cyprus centers around Britain's military foote hold in the islend and in possession of three of the most powerful radio recording stations in the world, A swarm of U.S, technicians are on the island including agents of the FBI and CIA.
KWILU MADE