Letters to the Editor
Cyprus Lord Stanley of Alderley The Russian Visit E. F. G. Haig `Russian Holiday' J. E. M. Arden Kipling Adm. Sir W M. James,
H. S. W. Edwards
Political Definitions David Penderyn The Brontes Margaret Crompton Unofficial Secrets Charles Fry and
Anthony Gibbs
Witches Gerald B. Gardner The Man Who Went To Dinner? Geoffrey Gorer English as She is Wrote John Churchill Italian as She is Wrote W. Lyon Blease
CYPRUS
SIR,--Mr. Kyprianos should not be surprised at my support of ideas not sponsored by the Government. There is no EOKA here to make me hesitate to express my views. Certainly I know of cases in Cyprus of threatened ex- communication for political reasons, though nothing on earth would induce me to divulge details of them out of respect for the safety of my informants.
Mr. Kyprianos seems to deny that the Greek Church has any political ambitions. I would only ask him when Archbishop Makarios, or his brother in God of Kyrenia, last mentioned the name of the Almighty in a sermon. Was the Archbishop's mission to Bandoeng purely spiritual, having its origin in a zeal for the well- being of the souls of the South-East Asians? No, Sir. Ever since the first ecumenical coun- cil was held at Nicza in AD 325 the Byzantine Church has had a high disregard for the exhortation to 'Render unto Cmsar the things which are Cmsar's.'
As to whether EOKA is an invisible power in Cyprus, I should have thought that Mr. Kyprianos was better fitted by his office in Ethnarchy to enlighten readers of the Spectator on this matter. Whence it derives its power for secret terror could surely be better answered by those whose silence on its black crimes ,must be assumed to indicate assent to its policy of cowardly terrorism.—Yours faithfully,
STANLEY OF ALDERLEY
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