CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: February 5, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONTENTS
1. BRITISH DISCOURAGED OVER MAKARIOS' REPLY ON
CYPRUS FORMULA
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CYPRUS FORMULA
Cypriot archbishop Makarios' con-
ditional acceptance of Britain's formula
committing it to the establishment of
self-government on Cyprus is regarded
by the British Foreign Office as "equivo-
cal and definitely discouraging." The
absence of Prime Minister Eden and
will delay a decision for several days. Makarios is seek-
ing to bring the British into negotiating a constitution on
his own terms.
Foreign Secretary Lloyd and the pressure of other problems
Makarios in his reply stipulated that
the British must give assurances concerning the consti-
tutional principles on which self-government would be
based before he can discourage the use of terrorism on
the island. He insists on a legislature with an elected ma-
jority chosen on the basis of proportional representation,
and the subordination of the executive to the legislative au-
thority, except in matters of foreign affairs and defense,
which will remain in British hands.
London probably cannot accept all of
Makarios' conditions without risking a violent Turkish re-
action, since Turkey insists that a Cypriot legislature must
provide equal representation for the Greek community and
the Turkish minority. If a legislature is organized, a re-
sumption of agitation on Cyprus for union with Greece can
be expected.
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3. EURATOM PROJECT SEEN THREATENED IN FRANCE
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Ambassador Dillon believes that it may
be very difficult to obtain final parlia-
mentary approval in France for the
proposed EURATOM project if all
ies must renounce the right to make atomic
weapons. According to him, this concept was recently in-
jected into the original EURATOM plan by Jean Monnet,
and while it is wholeheartedly approved by Premier Mollet,
it is already provoking strong criticism in ultranationalist
circles?
Dillon estimates that the prospects are
good that the French Assembly will soon approve a general
resolution in favor of EURATOM, but cautions that this
would not necessarily mean more than did the assembly's
resolution approving EDC in 1952.
Comment Monnet's special emphasis on the peace-
ful purposes of EURATOM probably re-
flects his desire to strengthen Socialist support for the
plan, particularly in West Germany. In endorsing the
Monnet resolution, Premier Mollet probably hopes also
to exploit it as evidence of France's desire for early
progress toward disarmament. However, Mollet's fur-
ther belief that he can use integration as a drawing card
for more right-center support of his government would
be seriously compromised by nationalist feeling whipped
up over the ban on manufacture of nuclear arms
The question of weapons manufacture
would in any case have arisen in connection with the pro-
posals that EURATOM have exclusive ownership and con-
trol over nuclear fuels, This problem will probably be
discussed by the foreign ministers of the Coal-Steel
Community when they meet on 18 February to discuss
both EURATOM and the common market.
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