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...feared for the already fragile fabric of the Commonwealth. Last week, when the bill came up for a two-day debate in Parliament, the staid old House of Commons was plunged into such violent turmoil that the chair had to suspend a session for the first time since the Suez dispute...
...SUEZ POLICY. "It was very difficult because here were our very finest friends involved. I had many communications with Mr. Eden, who was then Prime Minister, and I said, 'We're not going to destroy the United Nations, and the United Nations says that these types of arguments must be solved peacefully.' But our action was misunderstood. The British press said that we had let them down. We hadn't, because we told the government exactly what we would do, but that was not publicized there. I think in the long run it has turned...
Private Scourgings. Latest critic to have a go at unraveling the mystery of Lawrence is Anthony Nutting, whose credentials include Eton, Cambridge, and a tour as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs under Eden (Nutting resigned in protest against Eden's decision to launch the catastrophic Suez adventure). According to Nutting, a key fact is that Lawrence was illegitimate. At the age of ten, Lawrence learned that his father was not the respectable Welsh gentleman he seemed, but Sir Thomas Robert Chapman, an Irish baronet who had left his wife and four daughters to run off with the children...
...Appalled by a rough Channel crossing in 1956, Davidson was the moving spirit in setting up the prestigious Channel Tunnel Study Group, consisting of his own Technical Studies Inc., a pair of venerable British and French companies associated with an 1881 attempt to bore a commercial tunnel, and the Suez Co., which, stripped of its canal, has become an investment company...
Does Arab Fight Arab? Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser took to Cairo radio to denounce the revolt. In somber, ragged sentences, he declared: "What happened today is more serious than Suez. Any division in national unity is much more serious than foreign aggression." To "straighten out the situation," as he put it in his broadcast, Nasser ordered his fleet and 2,000 paratroops to take seaport Latakia, started commandeering merchantmen to haul ground troops to Syria, which is seperated from Egypt by Jordan, Lebanon and Israel. Suddenly, Nasser changed his mind. He called off the attack just after...