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TURMOIL ON CYPRUS 339
of the deportees were second- or third-generation islanders, for
whom Diego Garda was their rightful home. Ahead lay years of
legal battles as the indigenous islanders attempted - unsuccessfully
- to end their forced resettlement and achieve the right to
return. 80 When the original secret deal over Diego Garda was
done, Sir Paul Gore Booth, the Permanent Under-Secretary at
the Foreign Office, had expressed the British attitude frankly: 'We
must surely be very tough about this. The object of the exerdse
is to get some rocks which will remain ours. There will be no
indigenous people except the seagulls .. .'81