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        On this, that the economic recovery of Greek Cyprus was aided considerably by the Western powers, British journalist Martin Woollacott points out in his incisive article "Cyprus: Dealing for Dollars":

Greek Cyprus must rank as one of the most subsidized nations in the world. With a population of only half a million people, it receives something like $54 million annually in grant aid from the United States, Greece, the United Nations, Britain, Germany and other countries, as well as an average $12 million a year in soft loans. In addition, it benefits massively from the UN military presence - - costs estimated at $29 million a year, of which Canada pays a hefty share -- and from the British bases. Foreign aid and loans approach a fifth of all government revenues, and the over-all contribution to the economy, including the military spending, may be of the same order. This provides a solid, if rarely acknowledged, base for the dynamic Greek Cypriot economy. But since much of the money directly derives from the division of the island, it also creates, as one diplomat put it, 'a vested interest in keeping things as they are'. The booming Greek Cypriot economy, partly fueled by such foreign injections, gives the Greek Cypriots no economic incentive for a settlement and tends to reinforce those hard-liners who prefer the strategy of the long struggle', which is really a strategy for the economic defeat of the Turkish

Maclean's Magazine, June 25, 1979, p. 29.