The Cyprus Question| A brief Introduction 6 By now it is no longer possible for violene and injustice to stifle a whole people in secret, without protest. Apparently, this world we thought had gone rotten, still has spirits that dare to rear their head against hypocricy, injustice, arrogance. It is a critical moment. The moral salvation of the whole world depends on the answer given to the Cyprus question. And on this moral salvation the political, social, cultural salvation of the world has always depended. Cyprus is no longer a detail now, a mere island at the extreme tip of the Mediterranean. It is becoming the fate-marked centre, where the moral value of contemporary man is at stake. […] There is some mystic law in this world (for if there were not, this world would have been destroyed thousands of years ago), a harsh inviolable law: in the beginning, evil always triumphs, and in the end it is always vanquished. […] For us this is a good moment to forget our passions and our petty cares; for each man of us with his own God-given gifts to follow the path of freedom throughout the land of Cyprus. And we must share her grief, her upsurge, her danger, insofar as we are capable, and surely later on (for this is the law, we said) her great joy as well.” Nikos Kazantzakis, “The Angels of Cyprus,” as it appeared as an Epilogue in his book England: A Travel Journal (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1965) The political-demographic de facto partition imposed on Cyprus since 1974 thus threatens not only the unity and integrity of a modern nation-state but also the millennial cultural integrity and continuity of the island which has been the crossroads of the civilisation of the eastern Mediterranean.” Michael Jansen,“Cyprus: The Loss of a Cultural Heritage,”(Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 2 (1986):314-323. “ “
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