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Anthony Eden's public life ended in the public disaster of Suez. Broken in health and spirit, he devoted his pasture years to that unbidden duty that commands so many retired statesmen. This is the third and last volume of the Eden memoirs, which altogether fill more than 2,000 pages...
...SUEZ. When Britain, France and Israel tried to seize the Suez Canal in 1956, the Security Council was paralyzed by British and French vetoes, and under the Uniting for Peace formula, the Assembly moved to send troops to patrol the Gaza Strip. The U.N. force thrust an impassive shoulder between Egyptian and Israeli combatants. Its continued presence may not have resolved Arab-Israeli differences (what could?), but today, the Gaza Strip is quiet...
...plot, from a lively little novel by W. H. Canaway, tells of Sammy (Fergus McClelland), a ten-year-old lad whose British parents are killed by British bombers over Port Said during the 1956 Suez crisis. Sammy sets out alone on a 5,000-mile odyssey to Durban, South Africa, to find his aunt. He joins a Syrian peddler in the desert and, when the Syrian meets disaster, takes his muiles and money and continues south. He eludes well-meaning tourists near Luxor, covers nearly 2,000 tense miles by boat, train and foot before he falls in with...
...Charter-which, "with Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kaishek, I had the honor of working out"-but in the fact that the General Assembly had usurped the powers delegated by the charter to the veto-conscious Security Council. "Under the pressure of events in Korea, in Suez, in Hungary, and of the immoderate abuse by the Soviets of their veto, the United Nations let themselves go beyond their nature and their possibilities -they went beyond their charter," said De Gaulle. "It is obviously necessary that Washington, Moscow, London, Peking, and Paris agree to return to the starting point, as they...
...Export-Import Bank provided $67.5 million. Major construction was finished in 36 months instead of the projected 48 months, and the first big shipments began moving down the river and out to sea in 1957, enabling ICOMI to cash in on the unusually high manganese prices caused by the Suez crisis. Since then, ICOMI has shipped 5,900,000 tons, grossed $224 million in all and netted between $12 million and $15 million each year. Moreover, it was able to repay its Export-Import Bank loan three years ahead of schedule...