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CYPRUS: THE ANATOMY OF THE PROBLEM
CHICAGO BAR RECORD
By HON. DEAN ACHESON
Preface
and in the outer circle those of the United
Copyright 1965 by The Chicago Bar Association
On March 24, 1965 Dean Acheson,
States, the Soviet Union, the United Arab
former United States Secretary of State,
Republic, and the officials of the United
Twenty-nine South La Salle Street
addressed The Chicago Bar Association
Nations.
at a dinner lecture, the first in the Henry
Chicago, Illinois
As I state the task, you see and surely
C. Morris Distinguished Lecture Series on
International Law. The Series, which is
sympathize with the complexities facing
administered by the Committee on Inter-
the lecturer. If he sometimes simplifies
HUGO SONNENSCHEIN, JR., Editor
national and Foreign Law, has been made
beyond the tolerances of the truth, you
possible through the generosity of the late
will not be overly critical.
Henry C. Morris, a member of the Asso-
First a word about Cyprus and its peo-
ciation for many years. Mr. Morris be-
ple. The largest island in the Eastern
As its official publication this magazine carries authoritative information about the activities of
queathed the income of a trust to the
Mediterranean, it lies forty miles off the
The Chicago Bar Association. Neither the Association nor the Editor however, assume responsibility
Association, so that it could secure speak-
southern coast of Turkey and something
for statements or expressions of opinion by contributors.
ers who are authorities in the field of
under a thousand miles from Athens. Of
International Law.
its half-million or more people four-fifths
Dean Acheson chose as his subject the
are Greek-speaking and of Greek de-
problem of Cyprus. He has a detailed
scent, the rest Turkish. Except for the
Published monthly
knowledge of this subject since he was
Turkish quarter of Nicosia, the capital
Single copies fifty cents, $5.00 per year
President Johnson's Special Representa-
and principal city, and two small spots on
tive to discuss with the representatives of
the north coast, Turks are pretty well
the governments of Greece and Turkey
mingled with Greeks throughout the
the differences between them over Cyprus.
island. Recent (1964) intercommunal
The text of the address appears on the
fighting has concentrated some twenty
THE CHICAGO BAR ASSOCIATION
following pages.
thousand Turkish refugees into camps
near Nicosia.
Walter Treumann
BOARD OF MANAGERS
Chairman,
For a millennium the history of Cyprus
OFFICERS
Committee on International
has been romantic and turbulent, as its
GORDON R. CLOSE
President
NORMAN H. NACHMAN DANIEL C. AHERN
THOMAS J. BOODELL
1st Vice-Pres.
JOHN C. FITZGERALD
JAMES J. BRENNAN
and Foreign Law
geographical position made inevitable
FRANK F. FOWLE
during the decline of the Eastern Roman
CLARENCE E. Fox
WILLIAM A. McSWAIN
2nd Vice-Pres.
JOHN M. MOELMANN
FRANK GREENBERG
Empire, the rise of Islam, and the Cru-
FRANK D. MAYER
Secretary
JUSTIN A. STANLEY
LOWELL H. JACOBSON
Some months ago I agreed-unwisely,
sades. In recent centuries it formed part
AUSTIN FLEMING
Treasurer
JOHN PAUL STEVENS
THOMAS R. McMILLEN
as I am now aware-to discuss Cyprus
of the Ottoman Empire. Greek Cypriots
JOHN J. SULLIVAN
CARL B. SUSSMAN
with you. The invitation was disarming.
detested Turkish rule as much as did
ALBERT H. WERNER
Librarian
BURKE WILLIAMSON
It did not call for an appraisal of who
mainland Greeks. In 1878 the British
AND THE OFFICERS Ex-OFFICIO
was right and who wrong in this tangled
took over, first administration of the is-
affair; nor for a solution, if any there be.
land and, after the First World War, SOV-
Either suggestion would have warned me
ereignty. Under their benign and compe-
off. The approach was to be wholly de-
tent rule the people of the island, for the
tached and scholarly, as befitted an audi-
first time, knew peace, order, and justice
ence such as this. I was to disentangle
under law. But they, like others, put a
MAY, 1965
No. 8
and identify the parts which considera-
low value on these supposed blessings,
Vol. XLVI
tions of politics, policy, diplomacy, and
and in 1954 traded them in for the slogan
international law played in the minds of
of self-determination. As time went on,
the multifarious parties. The parties in-
the slogan came to mean different things
volved include, in the inner circle,
to different Cypriots; but at the time it
Cypriots-Greek and Turkish-the gov-
meant an end to British rule. Turkish
ernments of Greece, Turkey, and Britain;
Cypriots agreed with this, for the British
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