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This advice, given by the State Department to a shipowners' committee, had the appearance of attempted pressure on Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...came as the United States and other Western users of the canal girded for long-range negotiations with Nasser on its future operation...
United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is returning from talks with Nasser on this question...
...there been any British acknowledgment of regret for its Suez invasion: it is generally regarded in Britain as a failure, but not a mistake. Selwyn Lloyd, Eden's Foreign Secretary, is still on the job, six months after Suez. The mood of the British press last week, as Nasser threw up new difficulties after Israel's withdrawal from his territory, was to crow at the U.S.: "I told you so." London papers, which used to save their sharpest digs for Dulles, have in recent weeks shifted their fire to Eisenhower (see cartoons). Once the most popular...
Some Britons recognize that part of the present difficulty of dealing with Nasser stems from problems created by their bungled attack. At this point, most were happy to leave the problem on Ike's doorstep, and even perhaps ready to grant that Britain currently is in no position to assert its own will in the Middle East. Suffering from the effects at home of the blocked canal and fearing the loss of most of its influence in the area-a defeat underlined last week by the agreement ending the 35-year-old relationship with Jordan and abandonment...