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...interests of the Western powers." Thus, without expending a single Russian soldier, Russia got credit among many Arabs for having made peace possible in the Middle East. (Among those not fooled was Egypt's top leadership, which saw that the Russians did not intervene to prevent the Anglo-French attack, but only sought to exploit...
Equipped only with small arms-and moral authority-U.N. Secretary-General Hammarskjold and his flea-sized army appeared Lilliputian figures alongside the forces they were to keep apart (the Anglo-French invasion force alone was 50,000 strong). In Egypt the puny army must somehow ensure that two of the greatest nations in Europe abandon with grievous loss of face a last-ditch attempt to dominate a region of the world vital to their survival as major powers...
From the communiqués it was easy to believe that what had taken place in Egypt was "an immaculate war." In London Defense Minister Antony Head announced that British casualties "did not exceed 85, of whom not more than 20 were killed." And from the beginning the Anglo-French high command emphasized the careful concentration on purely military targets, the deliberate effort to spare Egyptian lives and property...
...managed to mount only two fighter sorties against the British and French during the entire campaign. Some of Nasser's 50 Soviet-built Ilyushin bombers-perhaps as many as half-were believed to have been flown off to Saudi Arabia and Syria before the Anglo-French air attacks began, but much of his air force was caught on the ground. The British and French claimed to have destroyed 200 Egyptian aircraft and damaged 70 more, with a loss of only five of their own planes...
...needed. In a quick, impassioned speech far different from his dry, schoolmasterish recitations, Mollet said: "Nasser has lost. What has become of the bogus hero now that his army has refused to fight for him?" Without stopping to answer he rushed on to the new questions that Anglo-French aggression had created: "The repercussions of the measures we took have revealed the real situation in the Near East, the ambitions of the Soviet Union. They have made evident the absolute necessity for the three great Western powers to coordinate their policy." Next day Premier Mollet accepted the mandate...