Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis, who had…
April 1960 CE
Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis, who had retained a parliamentary majority in elections held in 1958, has helped Greece make a dramatic economic recovery from the devastation of the Second World War and the ensuing civil war (1946–49).
With American aid, he has achieved rapid economic growth and greatly expanded Greece's fledgling industrial sector.
In foreign affairs, he has improved Greece's relations with Yugoslavia, but those with Turkey and Great Britain remain strained because of the issue of tensions between the ethnic Greek majority and the Turkish minority on Cyprus, which had remained under British rule.
In order to restore friendly relations with the NATO powers, Karamanlis decides to disentangle the awkward Cyprus problem by ...
