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06 Mar 1959

US Consul General Taylor Belcher comments on his first meeting with Archbishop Makarios

US Consul General Taylor Belcher comments on his first meeting with Archbishop Makarios:

As with most people meeting Archbishop for the first time, I was most impressed with magnetic personality and warmth of his manner. His remarks on economic assistance, which amounted to request, follow pattern set earlier bycontacts among young lawyers and business people in greek community. I was surprised that Makarios even more frank and out+spoken in his approach to this problem that Zenon Rossides had been…