Sorry, steamchicken, you can't have Barbara Castle as a paragon.
Folks of my vintage will never forgive her for the way she laid into the British Forces in Cyprus who, with their famiies, were being targeted by Eoka terrorists during the 50s.
She supported the accusations of brutality by our troops in the same way that other tree-huggers have done. Her political ambitions knew no bounds.
She didn't have the benefit of Fr O'Brien's homily.
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This link is to a contemporary essay on the topic:
Eoka in Cyprus
...and this is an extract from it:
"The boycott and noncooperation with the British were ruthlessly enforced by EOKA. In reprisal for the alleged ill-treatment of Greek suspects by British troops, EOKA began to attack British civilians as well as soldiers. The murder in Famagusta of Mrs Cutliffe, the wife of a British soldier (for which EOKA denied responsibility), led to reprisals by British troops. Scores of Greek Cypriot men in the town were beaten while being rounded up for questioning. One man was killed and many others injured. Throughout the island at that time at least two thousand Cypriots were under detention and many thousands more subject to total house curfew, forbidden to leave their houses by night or day."
Killing unsuspecting innocent civilians is not a new trick of terrorists.
fob