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...Forthwith. Unmoved, the Asian nations, with the harsh assistance of Russia's Dmitry Shepilov, continued to press for passage of a resolution reproaching Egypt's three invaders. As a gracious gesture to the harried British, Krishna Menon came up with a new draft which noted the Anglo-French stalling with "regret" rather than "grave concern." The U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge helpfully assured the British that the word "forthwith" did not imply that all Anglo-French forces must leave Egypt immediately. "If forthwith does not mean forthwith," complained Selwyn Lloyd with understandable petulance, "then the resolution should...
...abstentions, the resolution passed. A few minutes later the Assembly, by an even more one-sided vote (65 to 0 with nine abstentions), authorized Hammarskjold to continue the negotiations he had begun with Dutch and Danish firms for clearance of the Suez Canal. With this vote went all Anglo-French hopes of getting the canal open on their own terms...
...Russia that Nehru has made, and next day the Times of India happily hailed it with the headline, EMOTIONAL BIAS IN FOREIGN POLICY GIVEN UP. In cold fact, the praise was only partly earned. For every admission of Russian guilt that Nehru made, there was an offsetting reference to Anglo-French guilt in Egypt. At least once Nehru seemed to imply that the invasion of Egypt was morally worse, saying: "There was no immediate aggression [in Hungary] as there was in the case of Egypt...
Gamal Abdel Nasser felt the strain too. From the night of the first Anglo-French air assault on his country, Egypt's strongman had remained constantly at his old revolutionary headquarters on Cairo's Gezira Island. Last week, plagued by a persistent sore throat, he moved back to his Cairo home. He had been averaging only three or four hours' sleep nightly, and had not helped matters by refusing to obey doctors' orders to stop smoking. All week he stayed indoors, and for the first time since the invasion, failed to keep up his almost daily...
...regime continued to maintain the degree of control that had surprised so many outsiders. But there was an underlying hostility to the invaders that the regime could play on. The government ordered Egypt's 35,000 Jews to leave the country within 24 hours. In Anglo-French occupied Port Said, infiltrating guerrillas plastered the walls with big signs saying: DEATH IF YOU STAY. Shopkeepers closed their stores, and the hostility and resentment mounted to a peak as the first U.N. forces marched in. Yelling "British Go Home" and "Long Live Nasser," nearly 20,000 pajama-clad Egyptians crowded onto...