§ 84. Mr. Doddsasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement in respect of the recent disturbances in Cyprus.
§ Mr. ProfumoI gave an account of the recent disturbances in Cyprus a week ago in answer to a Question by the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mrs. Jeger). Since then there have been some incidents in the same pattern but on a lesser scale, and the security forces have continued to exercise the same restraint in dealing with them. The Governor has met leaders of both communities and has spared no effort to obtain their co-operation in preventing communal disturbances. While the situation naturallly gives cause for anxiety, there are grounds for hope that the good sense of the great majority in both communities, and the arrangements made by the Cyprus Government to check communal strife and to deal with demonstrators, will prove adequate to avert a further deterioration of the situation.