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dated August 24, 1954: Pro-Greek slogans

Crowds surged through the streets of Nicosia on August 22 shouting pro-Greek slogans after Archbishop Makarios, head of the Cyprus Greek Orthodox Church, defied the British colony's anti-sedition laws for the third consecutive Sunday and told them that Britain had sentenced them "to be born slaves and to die in slavery." Addressing the people from the pulpit of Phaneromeni, the big Greek Church in the heart of Nicosia, the tall dark Archbishop, who is the leader of the right-wing movement for Enosis (union with Greece), declared in a thirty-minute sermon: "We shall remain faithful till death to our national claim. We shall never give way, we shall never compromise. We shall show contempt for force and tyranny. We shall rise above the obstacles in our way, aiming at Enosis and only Enosis."

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