With Rod & Gun

When Governor Sir John Harding declared a state of emergency in Cyprus last month, he decreed jail sentences for demonstrating, death for carrying firearms and "up to twelve strokes with cane, birch or rod" for rioting by school: boys. But still the agitation for enosis (union) with Greece continued. Last week four British Tommies were shot down by Sten gunfire from a passing car; a grenade tossed into an army truck killed its driver.

Reluctantly, Field Marshal Harding ordered a search for hidden weapons in more than a score of Greek Orthodox monasteries and nunneries. An army spokesman refused to "say at this time whether the nuns were frisked," but a monk who was carrying an icon-engraved box containing two revolvers was arrested.

While these irritations multiplied, the British in London oddly believed that conditions were about ripe for a settlement.

In the House of Commons last week, British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan stated publicly for the first time that he was prepared to promise Cypriots the right to self-determination. This assurance was once thought to be all that Archbishop Makarios III, the enosis leader, was waiting for. Instead, the 42-year-old archbishop dismissed Macmillan's pledge as unsatisfactory because Macmillan had not said when or how.

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