CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY REVIEW -- CYPRUS

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day trues called by tbe Cyprlot guerrilla organization EOKA has ended and tcrrorlet operatlone have been resumed. The apparent British determination to destroy EOKA before making further movesolitical settlement on Cyprus and tbe equally adamant nationalist determination to force London to negotiatealemate and of violence on the island.

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ay truce on Cyprus called by tbe Cyprlot guerrilla organization EOKA has ended and terrorist operations have been resused. LondonIntends to take nosteps toward giving ths Island self-government until the EOKA organization Is.

The British responss to EOKA's truce call onugust, ordering EOKA members tofor trial or forto Oreece, was rejected by the nationalists. EOKA then threatened to resume ItsIf ths British did not reopen talks with szlledNakarlos byugust. Security forces are continuing their campaign against EOKA and have now placed under house arrest the mayor of Nicosia, leading lay nationalist, and acting ethnarcbAnthlmos of Kltium. Also, six convicted EOKA prisoners have been transferred to England following the escape ofife sentence.

Karananlls told thecharge1 In Athens onugust bis government now faces the choice of accepting "tbe humiliations heaped upon Greece" or of "fighting back." Foreign Minister Averoff laterajority of the cabinet favoredtougher" Cyprus policy or resigning. Averoff suspects London wants toKarananlls and warnsew government mlgbt lead Greece out of NATO "regardless of the consequences,"

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