WITHIN THE NEXT three weeks Cyprus may well undergo a further constitutional change with the declaration of a separate Turkish Cypriot Republic. If this step is taken within a short space of time the Greek section of the island will be incorporated into Greece, Such a double Enosis" will in no way even begin to solve the basic problems which face the mass of the population of Greece, Turkey or Cyprus. Its main effect will be for the Karamanlis and Ecovit regimes to pose as great 'unifiers" of the "nation", In fact of course such national unity" has little to do with the people and a great deal to do with the relations between the bankers, financiers and Industrialists of the Eastern Mediterranean countries and the Imperialist powers with interests in the areas, the United States and Britain. In the past few weeks there has been a wave of popular indignation against the US in both Greece and Cypris The killing of US Ambassador Koger Davis has only been the most dranatic event revealing the real feeling of the workers and peasants. It is certuniy no isolated incident. Apart from the massive demonstrations in Athens, Pireas and Salonica raising the slogan Down with Yankee Imperialism', even smaller towns and cities have had their own expressions of anger. In Heraklion on the small island of Crete some 20,000 people marched on the US base and were only prevented from attacking it by the police of Karamantis.
Ever since the Papadapolous Junta scized control In silens Jo 130r 3E nas Do common knowledge that the CIA was the mastermind, and Papadopolous their agent. Now it is being revealed that it was the same source which was behind the installing of the murderous Satupsoo and his gang in Cyprus in July. The quiet whispering in the coffee houses, the secret communications systems in the prisons une now toplaood by the massive actions of the workers, peasants, students and intellect The streets. The whole aligament serialist powers is in a state of levloos are now needed by them However tie basic instabalities of international capitalism exaccerhate the gourmeting interests of the Imperialists ESS soen vory clearly over the question of the Turkish advances into increasing areas of Britain is determined to hang on to its the US bases in Greope, British capitalism hoods to keep its end up in NATO, and also because of its key role in the Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO) comprising Britain, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey. The British bascs are staging posts for both organisations. When Cyprus was still a colony the British used the Turkish community as an excie for not granting independence. Today It Is Its relationship with burkey me cmo wan makes area cautions in its approach to the Turkish advances. The grim perspoctives for British capitalism forces the ruling class to cling to salvapable assets that it may have, CENTO and it trade molics tons tas seen in the recent deals with the Shah of 'REPUTATION It is also quite clear that the British ane Using toe poston on the tHana Paser as a way of enhancing their "reputation: According to Evening Standard reporter Max Hastings Both the British forces and the British public (retired colonels) have Cyprus immensely. We lave become so passive, so accustomod to endless surrend et and decay, that the spoctacle of British armoured cars bringing the tourists out of the turmoil, of the Navy lifting families off the beaches and the RAF running superbly efficient operations to cope with them and bringing them home has given the British at least a feeling of doing sometling and doing it well. You might think these are just off tho cult nemarks of some joumalist, but they appear to be the official" view too, as according to the Commander in Chief on Cyprus, Air Marshal Sir John Aitken, 'We have heen thraugh tragic times, but exciting times, rewasding times. Perhaps the remark about tragic times' relatos to the changing cincumstances of the British, as Hastings does seem to think things have changes for the worst. For example before the war Cyprus was a "powerful booster' far army recruitment. Now the cod has come to the time "when the Brush never had it so good. LOr Hastings these are the cost forcible results of the Sampson coup and the Turkish itvasion.
While 5,000 Cypriots have died, 160,000 made horseless, and atrocities of tbu worst kind are reported from both Greek nd Turkish balt areas of the bland. Hastings sums up: "The dream was mattered when the Turkish army invaded the br Tand, The airit of Britonz tom the beach or was glorious, the smashing up af their
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