Career
Ambassador Davies was an American diplomat whose roles included director of the United States Department of State"s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs until October 1965. Then until 1970 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. After Davies"s death, President Ford appointed William R. Crawford Junior., as his successor.
Ambassador Davies had been serving as the United States Ambassador to Cyprus since May 1973.
lieutenant is alleged he was killed by Greek Cypriot gunmen during an anti-American demonstration outside the United States. Embassy in Nicosia, where an estimated 300–600 Greek Cypriots were "demonstrating against the United States.’s failure" to stop the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, which they perceived as the United States siding with Turkey. Davies and Antoinette Varnavas, an embassy secretary and a Greek Cypriot national, were killed by sniper fire from a nearby building, believed to be gunmen from EOKA-B, a Greek Cypriot paramilitary terrorist organization whose goal was to unite Cyprus with Greece.
Afterwards, the United States. government "immediately" sent his replacement, Ambassador to Yemen William R. Crawford, in order to demonstrate that "it was not blaming Greek-Cypriot authorities for the murder".
