§ 66. Mr. P. Williamsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what representations have been made to the Greek Government concerning the recent broadcasts abusive of this country on the Greek radio.
§ Mr. Dodds-ParkerThe latest of the repeated protests to the Greek Government about broadcasts from Athens Radio to Cyprus was made on 16th January. The Greek Government's reply of 17th January was unsatisfactory and evasive. It was accordingly rejected by Her Majesty's Ambassador who renewed his representations to the Greek Government and has now been authorised to convey to Her Majesty's Government the Greek Government's assurance that they dissociate themselves from the allegations made in the Athens Radio commentary which gave rise to this protest. I am circulating in the OFFICIAL REPORT the text of the monitoring report of this particular broadcast.
The following is the text of a monitoring report of an Athens Radio commentary on 12th January entitled: "Britain's agents killed Turkish policeman.As if the persecutions and the violent measures of the British Colonial Authorities against the Greek population of Cyprus were not enough, yesterday's vandalism, which must have been certainly organised by agents of the Foreign Dynast, was added. With the toleration of the British Colonial administrative organs some demonstrators looted and damaged Greek shops in Nicosia. They wounded Greek Cypriots and created panic and terror in Greek women who, with babies in their arms, were running to be saved from the mania of barbaric crowds.Yesterday's events in Nicosia are reminiscent of the horrible events which took place in Istanbul and Izmir during the terrible night of 6th September. The same methods were used. The British Colonial administrative organs, which show harshness and rage when striking at Greek Cypriots even for an unimportant reason showed an indeed surprising indifference to the raging demonstrators. The Colonial authorities in Cyprus have two standards of 26W justice: Cruel persecution of the Greek majority of the megalonisos and indescribable endurance when certain Turks—fortunately they are very few—at the service of the Government carry out criminal actions and violate even the most fundamental rules as regards the preservation of order.Those who instigated yesterday's demonstration in Nicosia knew about this. They know that they are the favourites of the British.The organisers of yesterday's riots knew the Turkish policeman was not killed by Greeks but by agents of the local administration in order to incriminate the Greeks and cause vandalism. Otherwise they would not have dared to do what they did. All this proves that the aim of the violent and stratocratic measures which the British are applying against the Greek Cypriot people is not the restoration of order in the island but the suppression of the Cypriot people's voice which is demanding that their sacred right of self-determination should be recognised.The world's free people will certainly judge this attitude of the British Colonial authorities and of some of their Turkish protegés. However, something else is also apparent, namely that the responsible colonialists, not having repented and not having been taught by the blows their policy has so far dealt to the cause of the free world, are still applying the policy of divide and rule.Realising that their violent campaign against the Cypriot people has completely failed, they are trying to turn the Turks of the island against the Greeks so that they may shift the issue on to another level. They are indifferent to the calamities which may be brought about by the tactics and to the general damage they are doing to the unity and interest of the free world.The agents of colonialism think that they can repeat in Cyprus what they have done in Izmir and Istanbul. They kill Turkish policemen in order to incite the Moslem element of the island, and massacre the people. However, we are certain that the Turkish population of the megalonisos knows who killed the Turkish policeman and who organised yesterday's vandalism. They know very well that everything is caused by colonialism, they denounce, not only yesterday's outrages, but also all the vile plans of foreign imperialism. Plans which aim at turning the Greeks of Cyprus against the Turks and vice versa.