Cypriots, under the strict rules enforced on…
1936 CE to 1947 CE
In 1937 the Committee for Cyprus Autonomy is formed with the avowed purpose of lobbying Parliament for some degree of home rule.
But most members of Parliament and of the Colonial Office, as well as many colonial officials on the island, misread the situation just as they had sixty years earlier, when they assumed administration from the Ottoman Turks and were greeted with expressions of the Greek Cypriot desire for enosis.
The British are still not able to understand the importance of this desire to the majority community.
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