277 CHAPTER 12 Dealing with Destitute Cypriots in the UK and Australia, 1914–1931 Andrekos Varnava and Evan Smith INTRODUCTION 1 In 1927 and 1928, the Australian authorities debated whether to discour- age Cypriot emigration. Australia House in London informed the British government that no facilities could be provided for Cypriots to immi- grate to Australia because the Australian authorities did not consider them as a class of migrant who could readily fnd employment in Australia and because there had been cases of destitution. On 30 August 1928, Leo Amery, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, informed the Governor of Cyprus, Sir Ronald Storrs, who had wanted to encourage the settlement of Cypriot agriculturalists in Australia, that Cypriots should not proceed to Australia unless they had friends or relatives there to look after them or © The Author(s) 2019 P. Payton and A. Varnava (eds.), Australia, Migration and Empire, Britain and the World, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22389-2_12 A. Varnava (*) · E. Smith College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia e-mail: andrekos.varnava@finders.edu.au E. Smith e-mail: evan.smith@finders.edu.au A. Varnava Honorary Professor of History, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK