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Taken up technically, the matter proved solvable. The Anglo-French salvage fleet would keep working in the Port Said harbor after the troops left. The ships would be turned over to the U.N., operate under the U.N. flag. Royal Navy officers and men would don civilian clothes "down to cuff links," and all wear U.N. arm bands. The ships would dismantle all guns (a good thing, gruffed Lord Hailsham, "there's nobody there I'd particularly want to salute...
Without the animosity that marked the anti-Americanism of a few weeks ago, British commentators probed what seemed to them a new direction in U.S. policy. In its bluntest terms, British opinion suspected that the old Anglo-U.S. alliance would not be quite the same again, and that for some time past it had not been quite what it seemed...
...most cited text for their new reading came from Vice President Nixon's remarks, right after the U.S. voted against Britain and France in the U.N. General Assembly on the issue of Egypt: "For the first time in history, we have shown independence of Anglo-French policies toward Asia and Africa which seemed to us to reflect the colonial tradition. That declaration of independence has had an electrifying effect throughout the world." Britons saw the idea confirmed last week as India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru emerged from intimate conference with President Eisenhower wreathed in smiles and declaring that...
...face of petrol rationing? For the past few weeks the breath of every car owner of my acquaintance has reeked of petrol. "Oh, it's only a can in case of emergency; might have to visit the hospital, you know." In the interests of whatever is left of Anglo-American solidarity, I think you should warn any of your countrymen who are proposing to come over here to be very careful where they toss their cigar butts...
Puritan into Purist. A painter friend of Hopper's, Guy Pene du Bois, pinpointed his genius way back in 1931: "Hopper denies none of the Anglo-Saxon attributes which are so strongly planted in his character. He has built an esthetic which expresses them directly. He has turned the Puritan in him into a purist, turned moral rigors into stylistic precisions." Du Bois' prophetic conclusion: "He will make many of the 'great' moderns seem like funny little reciters of fairy tales...