Monday, June 23, 1958
Riots these days are generally made, not born. On Cyprus, as in Algeria, they frequently happen just before the U.N. is about to take up the subject, or when someone is about to offer a new plan. Last week's riots on Cyprus, the worst in years on that embittered, embattled island, anticipated Britain's latest and long-delayed new offer.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810347-1,00.html
Called the Mason Dixon line, in the 1950's it was a border in the old city of Nicosia patrolled by British soldiers in order to keep the Turkish and Greek Cypriots apart
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