A Reluctant start: the road to Cyprus, 1964

Christine Winter; Rhys  Crawley

doi:10.1017/9781108628938.015

A Reluctant start: the road to Cyprus, 1964

Christine Winter, Rhys Crawley

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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Abstract

On the morning of Monday, 25 May 1964, following a ‘very pleasant, well organised and enjoyable’ flight, 38 Australian police stepped from their specially chartered Qantas Boeing 707, City of Brisbane, onto the tarmac at Nicosia International Airport, in the capital of Cyprus. It had been a long flight, ‘the longest [day] of my life’, wrote First Constable John Owens. Their landing had been delayed while the pilot ‘flew the length of the island several times’ waiting for the mist to lift. Finally on the ground at 7am, Owens recalled, ‘the Cyprus air was noticeably hot and moist – a marked contrast to the early morning frosts of Canberra, which we had left 24 hours before’.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Long Search for Peace
Subtitle of host publication	Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947–2006
Editors	Peter Londey, Rhys Crawley, David Horner
Place of Publication	Cambridge, UK
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	13
Pages	318-346
Number of pages	28
Volume	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108628938
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108628938.015
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

Cyprus
independence
1963
UNFICYP
civilian police
Canada
struggle

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