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...waterway under a form of international supervision while acknowledging Egypt's ownership. Dulles sent the State Department's ace Middle East troubleshooter, Loy Henderson, to Cairo on a five-nation committee "to present and explain" the U.S. plan to Egypt's President Nasser...
Last week Nasser rejected the U.S. forces of morality, and that new and serious situation was at hand. The Cairo talks failed, and once more war talk was spouting out of Paris and London (see FOREIGN NEWS). In this new crisis, the basic objectives of the U.S. remained unchanged. "We are committed to a peaceful settlement of this problem," said President Eisenhower...
...London last week, cocktail-party pundits predicted: "Nasser or Eden out of power by October." At a Socialist rally in Caterham, the Labor Party's foreign-affairs spokesman, Alfred Robens, cried that if peaceful negotiations with Nasser failed, Anthony Eden "has no alternative but to resign." One lover of historical irony, harking back to Ethiopian War days of Eden the boy-wonder diplomat, announced that Eden was about to end his career as he began it, talking about sanctions that he can't deliver...
...understandable why the conclusion-jumpers were so active. In the first angry days after Nasser's seizure of the Suez, Sir Anthony had talked tough. Last week, after a month and a half of inconclusive international consultations, culminating in the abortive Menzies mission to Cairo. Eden had softened. Now some of his fellow Tories demanded that he make good on his threats. On the other hand, the Labor Party, which represents roughly half the British population, was sharply opposed to the use of force against Egypt, pressed him to submit the case...
...replace him. Furthermore, Sir Anthony's un-Edenish tone and temper during the first days of the crisis, and his subsequent softening, could be understood and accepted by many Britons. In the first place, a very broad band of British public opinion was genuinely and deeply angered by Nasser's seizure; any British spokesman using less than strong language would have been accused of not representing the true reaction of the nation.* Secondly, urbane Sir Anthony has a temper grown sharper with the years, and Nasser's act touched off in him a flare of personal contempt...