Complex sentence: Armitage, nervous of loss of control, wanted to "nip trouble in the bud" there by detaining leading members of EOKA, and he later did so under a Detention of Persons Law without any formal State of Emergency.
Split into simpler sentences: Armitage, nervous of loss of control, wanted to "nip trouble in the bud" by detaining leading members of EOKA. He later did so under a Detention of Persons Law without any formal State of Emergency.