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...Lebanon. Syria. Indo-China, Madagascar, Tunisia, Morocco, Suez. Algeria ?and has either lost each war or felt cheated of complete victory. With a long record of involvement in politics, the French army played a part in the overthrow of each of the republics preceding De Gaulle's Fifth?except for the Third, which was destroyed not by the French but by Hitler's army...
Hardly expected to survive 1957 when he took over the Tory Government in the rolling wake of Suez, Britain's Harold Macmillan was entering his sixth year as Prime Minister with a hankering for many happy returns. Chirped Macwonder, rattling off the records of Disraeli (stepping down age: 75), Churchill (80) and Gladstone (84): "There are some very respectable precedents for a stripling of not quite...
...aliens. Last week his government seized all French schools and ordered 300 French teachers out of the country. In prison awaiting trial on fantastic charges of plotting against Nasser, are four members of a French mission that was liquidating property seized after the collapse of the Suez invasion...
...Afro-Asians and the Communists. From Russia, Nikita Khrushchev cabled Nehru his approval. Momentarily abandoning its border feud with India. Red China announced its "resolute support." No word of protest was heard in India. Draped in a cloak of injured innocence, the Indian press charged that Britain in Suez behaved far worse than India; conveniently forgotten was the fact that Britain bowed to a U.N. cease fire and withdrew from the territory it had taken. The Times of India voiced the surprise of Indian diplomats that the Portuguese authorities in Macao and Africa had interned 30,000 Indian passport holders...
...since the days of the Suez crisis," wrote Editor Erwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, "has the Western world been more deeply divided than it is now over the Katanga. The situation is in a thorough mess.'' And not for years have the pundits and editorialists of the U.S. press been so deeply disturbed by a cold war maneuver. Last week, as the mess in the Congo showed no signs of abating (see THE WORLD), the U.S. press found little that made sense in the strange and unsettling collision of international armies half the world away...