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...votes, the first governor in 32 years elected in his first try. He has since firmly refused to make speeches on the segregation issue, either inside or outside Mississippi. And no scholar is quicker to remind the South that during Reconstruction the Supreme Court was its friend and protector...
During the world crisis of last fall the U.S. turned to the U.N. "as a protector of small nations," and the U.N. was "able to bring about a cease-fire and withdrawal of hostile forces from Egypt because it was dealing with governments and peoples [i.e., the British, French and Israelis] who had a decent respect for the opinions of mankind." But not so the Soviets, who had ignored the U.N.'s repeated resolutions for withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. "Therefore," said the President, "the U.N. can always be helpful, but it cannot be a wholly dependable protector...
...Dutch diver named Flip Gwoud suited up aboard a Danish launch at the southern entrance to the Suez Canal. Then he slid over the side to mark the sunken wreck of the Egyptian frigate Abikir. Minutes later the Danish tug Protector chugged past to start work on a wrecked dredger blockading passage eight miles farther north. Thus at last the U.N. salvage fleet began its huge job of clearing the 40 wrecks that block the Suez Canal...
Thus, Oliver Cromwell, the hero to so many English historians, is Churchill's villain. He considers the Lord Protector− who, invoking God's will, ordered 3,000 men put to the sword in one day-a warning to all those who would be willing to kill others in order to improve the survivors. Says Churchill: "A school grew up to gape in awe and some in furtive admiration at these savage times . . . The twentieth century has sharply recalled its intellectuals from such vain indulgences...
...part of the hypothetical agreement, the United Nations must urge both parties to accept it as the the protector and administrator of Suez. This solution would require some hard swallowing from Nasser, but it is the only one which would possibly be acceptable to Great Britain, France, and Israel. Nasser would undoubtedly be upset, but, considering the continued flow of oil from Lebanon and Syria and the general Arabian fear of Nasser's domination, it unlikely that the rest of the Middle East would really mind...