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...dusk the first Anglo-French bombers hit Egypt's airfields. It was all the help the Israelis at Abu Aweigila needed. With Egypt's air harassment all but eliminated, the vulnerable but speedy French tanks engaged the T-345. Soon the hillsides were smoky with burning tanks, both Egyptian and Israeli, but the AMXs' speed was proving decisive when night fell...
...twin Canberra jets whistled in from Cyprus to strike at airfields. "I must say that the sooner Egypt sees reason and agrees to temporary international control of the Suez, the less lives will be lost," pronounced General Sir Charles Keightley (rhymes with neatly), C-in-C of the joint Anglo-French operation, from his Cyprus GHQ. The political hope in London and Paris was that airstrikes alone, combined with the Israeli sweep across the Sinai, would persuade Egypt to surrender, or to overthrow Nasser. But the basic military intent was to clear the skies for Anglo-French invasion...
...Friendly Anglo-American relations have tended to have been taken for granted during the last century, according to May. These friendly relations have been based, with the exception of strategic alliances during the two world wars, on a rather vaguely defined ethnic identification...
President Eisenhower protested the threatened Anglo-French troop movements, and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge offered a U.N. resolution which implied a condemnation of them. The resolution called on Israel to cease fire and withdraw to its borders and asked U.N. members to refrain from using force in the troubled area...
...average citizen the Anglo-French behavior seems so incredible that he cannot imagine what could have been done about it. Actually, however, the United States did have some advance warning in the massing of Israeli troops on the border. Considering Anglo-French feeling about Suez and the Arabs, the President might have anticipated their action. If, immediately upon hearing of the invasion, the President had condemned armed intervention of any country except under the auspices of the U.N. perhaps the British might have been prevented from wading...