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The shipwreck of the Consultative Assembly served to sharpen the left-right conflict and to further radicalize the right, which adopted new characteristics in its approach to enosis. The right began using anti-British rhetoric after realizing how exposed it was by its adherence to riding the coattails of Greek–British friendship to its desired resolution of the Cyprus issue and also because the new Archbishop, a powerful figure, had taken a new political attitude toward the issue of union with Greece. The colonial authorities, of course, contributed to this shift by seeking permission from London to institute repressive measures on the island to declare a state of emergency.1
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Alecou, A. (2016). The Internationalization of Enosis. In: Communism and Nationalism in Postwar Cyprus, 1945-1955. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29209-0_8
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