Press Release, Address by Dean Acheson, "Cyprus: The Anatomy of the Problem," Before the Chicago Bar Association
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OCR Page 1 of 14For Release on Delivery
:30 P. M. , CST, March 24, 1965.
CYPRUS: THE ANATOMY OF THE PROBLEM
Address By
Dean Acheson
Before the
Chicago Bar Association
March 24, 1965.
Some months ago I agreed -- unwisely, as I am
now aware -- to discuss Cyprus with you. The invi-
tation was disarming. It did not call for an ap-
praisal of who was right and who wrong in this
tangled affair; nor for a solution, if any there be.
Either suggestion would have warned me off. The
approach was to be wholly detached and scholarly,
as befitted an audience such as this. I was to
disentangle and identify the parts which considera-
tions of politics, policy, diplomacy, and interna-
tional law played in the minds of the multifarious
parties. The parties involved include, in the
inner circle, Cypriots -- Greek and Turkish
the
governments of Greece, Turkey, and Britain; and in
the outer circle those of the United States, the
Soviet Union, the United Arab Republic, and the
officials of the United Nations.
As I state the task, you see and surely sympa-
thize with the complexities facing the lecturer. If
he sometimes simplifies beyond the tolerances of the
truth, you will not be overly critical.
First a word about Cyprus and its people. The
largest island in the Eastern Mediterranean, it lies
forty miles off the southern coast of Turkey and
something under a thousand miles from Athens. of
its half-million or more people four - fifths are Greek-
speaking and of Greek descent, the rest Turkish.
Except for the Turkish quarter of Nicosia, the
capital and principal city, and two small spots on
the north coast, Turks are pretty well mingled with
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communal fighting has concentrated some twenty thou-
sand Turkish refugees into camps near Nicosia,
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