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The Turkish position was very simple and pas-
sionately held. Even deeper than concern for the
welfare of the Turkish Cypriots was the conviction
that the national honor had been denegrated. Turkey
had given and received the most solemn commitments
about Cyprus. Almost at once these had been pro-
nounced unworkable and contemptuously repudiated by
men for whom the Turks had little or no respect.
They found this treatment insulting and intolerable.
They rejected utterly the new doctrine that the United
Nations could grant dispensations from inconvenient
treaty obligations. If particular provisions caused
unforeseen difficulty, the remedy lay in renegotiat-
ing, with suitable concessions.
The United States authorities discovered, what
should not have surprised them, that, in blocking
the Turks' use of a claimed treaty right to intervene
on the island to restore the status quo ante, they
had assumed a grave responsibility. Especially was
this SO as the situation in Cyprus deteriorated
rapidly and adversely to the Turkish position. The
Security Council of the United Nations had called
on the parties not to use force and had with Cypriot
consent put a peace-keeping force ashore under
Indian command, composed at first chiefly of British
troops with small contingents of Canadians, Danes,
Finns, Irish, and Swedes They were not to use
force and could go only where the Cypriot government
permitted. It did not permit them to go to certain
port areas where infiltration of arms and troops
from Greece began and continued on a large scale.
Small amounts of both also came from Turkey; but,
since the Turks had no control of any port, this
was restricted by the necessity of night operation:
in small boats on an open coast.
The United Nations also had as political repre-
sentative on the island former President Galo Plaza
of Ecuador and as Mediator Ambassador Tuomioja of
Finland, both able men. But they were unable to budge
the Archbishop and the Greek Cypriots, who believed
that the United States would not permit Turkish inter-
vention and would use force if necessary to prevent it.
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