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...London last week the bitterest and most divisive British political controversy of modern times flared into renewed life. Once again Englishmen argued in passionate detail the rights and wrongs of the Suez invasion of 1956. Cause of the furor: publication of Full Circle, the memoirs of former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden...
...Observer, Sir William Hayter, who was Britain's Ambassador to Moscow at the time, wrote that Suez "was morally repulsive to many people (myself included)." After World War II, Sir William continues, Britain, though declining as a military power, was gaining a new reputation for "moderation, wisdom, respect for international law . . . Suez blew it all away," and Britain was made to appear "the same old grasping imperialist as ever, but toothless and rather incompetent." If Eden had not resorted to force, "some kind of international element in the control of the canal would have been preserved; the weakness...
...statement that he regarded Gaitskell's rise to leadership of the Labor Party as "a national misfortune," said that his own view of Eden as a Prime Minister was "even stronger," and bluntly called Eden's account of the Opposition's role during the Suez crisis "exceptionally misleading." By innuendo, Gaitskell revives the old charge of emotional instability in Eden caused by ill-health: "How it came about that [Eden] behaved in a manner completely at variance with his past is a mystery on which the memoirs throw no light." But Gaitskell himself came in for some...
...issued a warning that the Middle East situation was again "deteriorating." The origins of the flare-up date from Israel's claustrophobic feeling of isolation in the Arab Middle East, and its conviction that the indifferent rest of the world has reneged on its promise to keep the Suez Canal open to Israeli shipping. Seizing upon a small incident on the Syrian border last month, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion launched Israel's first reprisal raid since the 1956 Sinai invasion, blasting and leveling a Syrian village in a demilitarized zone. The U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission called...
...last week, on a visit to his northern province of Syria, Nasser tossed off incendiary speeches, pledging never to let Israeli ships or goods through the Suez Canal, damning the 1950 U.S.-British-French guarantee of Middle East borders as "dead and buried," summoning all Arabs to follow him in a "sacred march" to "liberate Palestine...