The 55 year Cyprus debacle: A bird's eye view

Cyprus Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 65-80

  Heraclides, Alexis ^a  

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16. It is also worth noting that on several occasions in the course of four decades, from 1912 until 1945 Whitehall flirted with the idea of ceding the island to Greece. See for a summary Heraclides, A. (2002) op.cit., pp. 241-4.
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