Christopher Hitchens commented on Finer's 1972 article in the "New Statesman" under the title "The Colonels' Bid For Cyprus", saying that: "...[it] still lives in my mind as one of the most Cassandra-like essays ever published." Hitchens explained that Finer had predicted, as early as 1972, the events which led to the ousting of Makarios and the subsequent invasion of the island by Turkey in 1974.