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Why did the ancient and beautiful island of Cyprus become a world problem arousing deep national emotions and the threat of war?
In answering this quiestion, Mr. Stephens relates events in Cyprus to three larger factors that are still not well understood in Western countries: the rise of Greek nationalism and the debacle of expansionist Hellenism in the aftermath of the first world war; the collapse of the Ottoman empire and the rise of modern Turkish decline of British imperial power in the Middle East.
