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Although he seems to be losing the battle to rule the Arab world, Egypt's Colonel Nasser last week won control of what is now undeniably his, the Suez Canal...
...Suez issue. Mollet had given a patriotic dimension to what was essentially an economic debate. Normally a calm, rational schoolteacher, Guy Mollet hates Nasser with a smoldering passion, and the French respect him for it. One measure of Mollet's standing in the country: Montmartre's irreverent chansonniers, traditionally free with politicians in their songs, do not mock Mollet...
...distance as Harold Macmillan, pale and humorless, rose in the House of Commons last week to put an 'official stamp on the greatest British diplomatic reverse since Munich. "Her Majesty's Government," announced the Prime Minister, "can no longer advise British shipowners to refrain from using the Suez Canal." Payment of canal dues, he went on, would be made in sterling-though Egypt's pre-Suez balance of $300 million, which was blocked by the Eden government, would remain frozen. Curtly, Macmillan said: "A much longer view will decide the rights and wrongs. This...
Twist of the Knife. Looking hopefully at this dissension amongst the Tories, the Labor Party moved to the attack in Commons, proposing a vote of censure against the government's Suez policy. With cool remorselessness, Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell ticked off the consequences of the Suez war-"the blocking of the canal, the cutting of the pipelines, the strain on the pound, the introduction of petrol rationing,* the check to industrial expansion, a tremendous blow to our reputation in the world." The upshot, needled Gaitskell, was that "we are now forced to accept [from Egypt] terms far worse than...
...first formal press conference in three years, Premier Nuri asSaid said flatly that Iraq would retain martial law-imposed last autumn after Britain and France invaded Suez-as long as the Soviet Union continued her attempts to penetrate the Middle East. Martial law will be lifted, he said, "when we see that Communism-or, really, Moscow-is going to stop creating troubles among our neighboring countries. I don't believe Moscow is going to stop creating disturbances, so we must be careful not to allow Shepilov, Khrushchev and others to deal with our safety, our policy." As-Said...