Word: nasser
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...that Britain had to withdraw from Suez without getting the canal or bringing down Nasser, Selwyn Lloyd had two options: to confess defeat or to brazen it through. He chose to claim a victory...
...going to attack Egypt, though they expected the invasion to take place nearer U.S. Election Day, a few days later than it actually did (thus accounting for the initial slowness of the Anglo-French operation). France viewed with enthusiasm, and Britain with at least equanimity, an Israeli attack on Nasser, and both France and Britain conspired to keep the U.S. in the dark about their Israeli intelligence and their own military intentions...
...franker than the Brit ish about Suez. Said Socialist Premier Guy Mollet last week: "We did not tell President Eisenhower about the Franco-British invasion, because if we had, the U.S. would have insisted on our stopping." Mollet did not acknowledge that the main French objective was to unseat Nasser, but the failure to achieve this aim was threatening the life of his government last week...
...bring down Nasser, the French reasoned, was to stop the flow of money, arms and propaganda which keeps Algeria in active revolt. Merely to wound Nasser was to leave Algeria as serious a situation as before. With less than 100 of the 586 Deputies present, Parliament listened in frigid silence as Foreign Minister Christian Pineau announced the withdrawal of French troops from Suez...
...look at artillery and tanks newly arrived from Soviet-bloc countries. The Syrian army chief firmly denied that Soviet-type planes had arrived recently in Syria. Syria, an economically sound if politically unhealthy nation, is getting arms cut-rate from Russia, and paying out of current funds. Unlike Nasser's Egypt, which has mortgaged perhaps half of its cotton crop to pay for Communist arms, Syria is in little danger of having its exports cornered by the Russians (Syria's trade with the Soviet bloc was only 1 ½% of its total last year...