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...said that he would stay at Harvard to give the concluding lecture of his Godkin series tonight--a talk in which he promised to discuss the Tory government's Middle East policies. In the past, Gaitskell has spoken out quite strongly against the Anglo-French action in the Suez area...
...cannot, myself, see any possibility of drawing a distinction on a geographical basis, so that we consult about one area and not about another. Things are much too mixed up for that." Gaitskell said he hoped that the Anglo-French action in the Middle East has created a "revulsion against anybody doing any-thing of the kind again...
...sharply attacked Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in a speech in the House of Commons for the British-French intervention in Egypt, calling the government's move an "assault on the free principles which have governed British foreign policy for at least the last ten years." He called the Anglo-American alliance "the basis for maintaining the peace...
...gave nine Soviet correspondents a two-hour interview in which he thanked the Russians for sending him military aid "without conditions" and for offering "volunteers" to fight the Suez invaders. Said Nasser: "I wish for this friendship to grow and develop in strength." A Nasser aide announced that the Anglo-French attack on Suez had freed Egypt from its commitment to negotiate for nonpolitical operation of the canal in accordance with the U.N.'s "six principles." Cairo later explained that it would still negotiate on the matter with the U.N., was only excluding direct negotiations with France and Britain...
...Suez dramatized what had long been an unadmitted fact: that the Anglo-American alliance is not, as it was often assumed to be, something that reflects a common policy around the world. No joint policy existed for the Middle East. No joint policy exists in the Far East, where the two powers disagree over the recognition of Red China. The U.S., in helping emergent peoples in Asia and North Africa, had often found its achievements compromised by the U.S. association with the colonial powers. This stigma might not have been crippling if the U.S., Britain and France had hammered...