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...their plan to attack Egypt with the French and Israelis. Acheson does not necessarily approve the attack on Egypt, but thinks that once it was begun, the U.S. should have used the threat of its fleet, if necessary, to guarantee that the attack would be successful and bring Nasser's downfall. The U.S., he adds, should never have taken its case against the aggressors to the United Nations until the Suez Canal was in British-French hands, and there, somehow managing not to look like aggressors, the Americans should have backed up the British and French "by skillful...
General Wheeler put his team together in an atmosphere of popular confusion and political outcry that sorely tested even his engineer's vocational optimism. The British had taken exception to his statements that as a U.N. official he was only Nasser's guest in Egypt, and had accused him of letting the Egyptians delay the clearance job. The Egyptians had displayed all the sensitivities of the injured and assaulted, had insisted on accepting the benefactions of their U.N. rescuers on their own terms...
...Already Nasser seemed to be back at his old trick of playing off East against West. As if to flaunt in Western faces the possible consequences of calling him to account, Nasser gave nine Soviet correspondents a two-hour interview in which he thanked the Russians for sending him military aid "without conditions" and for offering "volunteers" to fight the Suez invaders. Said Nasser: "I wish for this friendship to grow and develop in strength." A Nasser aide announced that the Anglo-French attack on Suez had freed Egypt from its commitment to negotiate for nonpolitical operation of the canal...
...Nasser took back Port Said last week, the battered city was permitted a short spasm of celebration. As his troops and tanks moved in, the snipers that the inflammatory Cairo press had played up as second Stalingraders fired their rifles in the air. Then they rushed to pull down the 57-ft. statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, French-born father of the Suez Canal. With police cordoning the crowd, three successive charges of dynamite toppled the statue in a shower of bronze splinters. Boys fired at the great figure as it fell, then trampled the wreckage, shouting: "Down with Britain...
...Commanding General Sir Hugh Stockwell sent out search parties to comb every house in the district, but they found no sign of the young lieutenant. Francis Moorhouse's first instinct was to seize a telephone and put in a direct call to Egypt's Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser. It failed to get through...