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...matter of hours poured 3,000 crack troops, with their tanks and troop carriers, into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After the fiasco at Suez, the British were delighted at the chance to demonstrate that they could still defend the vital areas of the Middle East that are the source of Britain...
Most Arab governments were still annoyed that Kassem had brought on "imperialist" intervention. Nasser allowed a British aircraft carrier and five other warships to pass through the Suez Canal en route to Kuwait without a word of protest, but finally decided he disliked the British more than Kassem. "Kassem is only a bad cold, but British imperialism is a cancer," wrote Nasser's favorite journalist. The U.A.R. forthwith sponsored a Security Council resolution urging an immediate British withdrawal from Kuwait. With support only from Russia and Ceylon, the resolution was defeated...
...Tory right wing is anti-Common Market, believing Britain is still physically powerful enough to go it alone as a great power; e.g., they regret the abortive Suez invasion only as a failure of nerve and not of policy. The Labor left wing is also antiMarket in order to retain Brit ain's unilateral capacity to act; it is the left's impression that Britain is still morally powerful enough to sway world opinion, particularly by giving up the atom bomb to shame everybody else into disarming. When Laborite Roy Jenkins forcefully argued that Britain ought...
...heavy vote it draws from U.S. Jews, is automatically pro-Israeli. He sent off warm and tactful letters to the chiefs of state of the United Arab Republic, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. To Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Kennedy recalled U.S. support at the time of Suez, to Lebanon's President Fuad Che-hab he mentioned the 1958 landing of U.S. Marines. To each, Kennedy promised that the U.S. was "willing to share in the labors and burdens" of resolving the Arab-Israel controversy, and in particular the problem of the Arab refugees from Palestine...
...countries, including the U.S. Ben-Gurion replied that he would be willing to take back a few, perhaps 50,000 or so, but only as part of an overall settlement in which the Arab countries would recognize Israel as a nation. Presumably they would let Israeli ships through the Suez Canal and reach an agreement on the Jordan River. Last week, as the texts of the Kennedy letters leaked out, the replies began drifting in from the Arab states, and they were decidedly chilly. The Arab leaders, in more or less the same words, again denied the right...