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    "ocrText": "- 12 -\nFor a while the tension grew as the Archbishop\nrefused to permit the replacement of 250 Turkish\nsoldiers of the Treaty garrison, whose term of mili-\ntary service had expired -- a replacement the Greeks\nhad been permitted to make a month before -- and\nplayed cat-and-mouse with the efforts of the United\nARCHIVES &\nNations command to get food, water, and fuel for be-\nRECORDS\nADMIN\nseiged Turks. At length these irritants were\nremoved, the danger of immediate hostilities receded;\nso, also, did the possibility of a settlement.\nFurther exploration by the Mediator and the\nPresident's representative left the impression that\nthe Greek government had been paralyzed; whether\nfrom the effect which the Archbishop, General Grivas,\nand the press were having on Greek populace and\nmilitary forces or from the belief that stalemate\nfavored enosis, one could only speculate. At any\nrate no movement toward a negotiable position was\ndiscernible. The Archbishop's withdrawal from ex-\ntreme provocation, but not an inch further, and his\ndaily denunciation of any settlement but unconditional\nindependence made it pretty clear that he saw stale-\nmate as leading toward his desire. The Turks were\nquite willing to pick up the discussions at the point\nwhere the Kokkina fighting interrupted them. But\nthey saw that in making any further concessions to\nunresponding Greeks they would merely be negotiating\nwith themselves.\nSo the attempt to bring Greece and Turkey to-\ngether soon straggled to an end in sandy deltas of\nfrustration. A new phase began with the missions to\nMoscow. The Archibishop led off, sending his Foreign\nMinister to Moscow while he went to Cairo. Out of\nthese visits came assurances of support for uncondi-\ntional independence. The Soviet Union had always been\nstrongly opposed to enosis, seeing much greater pos-\nsibility of communist party growth in an independent\nCyprus than in Cyprus as part of Greece. Colonel\nNasser, too, could hope for an earlier end to British\nbases on an independent Cyprus than on an island\nincorporated into a NATO ally. Somewhat vague sug-\ngestions of support in the form of communist bloc\naircraft transferred to Cyprus and based on Egypt\nonly 250 miles away came out of both visits. These\nresults could not fail to have a chilling effect in\nAthens where the belief was still held that indepen-\ndence is the path to enosis."
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