Word: suez
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...with the comment that the U.S. attempt to send military aid to the Mideast "will lead to trouble." Other critics in Britain and the U.S. added that the new doctrine meant nothing without specific policies for solving the internal problems of the Middle East, e.g., the status of the Suez Canal, Israel v. the Arabs-which the U.S. intends to work for through...
Hugh Gaitskell asked the United States to cooperate in forming a resolute U.N. policy on a Suez settlement in his final Godkin Lecture last night...
...support were not given on these Suez demands, Gaitskell said, "there would develop in Europe a growing cynicism and indifference both towards the United Nations, and let me be frank, a growing irritation with the policies of the United States...
While criticizing Anglo-French intervention in the Suez, Gaitskell insisted that it was only a "temporary affair, an aberration," which represented no return to colonialism. He pointed to independence granted to British colonies and dominions since the war, and efforts in that direction by France, as evidence that the two European powers were no longer pursuing colonialsim...
...said that he would stay at Harvard to give the concluding lecture of his Godkin series tonight--a talk in which he promised to discuss the Tory government's Middle East policies. In the past, Gaitskell has spoken out quite strongly against the Anglo-French action in the Suez area...