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...would ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson have handled the Suez crisis? He is much too discreet to say publicly, but privately he has been telling his Washington law associates and fellow guests at Georgetown cocktail parties that the Eisenhower Administration was all wrong on Suez. Acheson believes that "fumbling" by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles estranged the British and led them to their decision not to advise the U.S. of their plan to attack Egypt with the French and Israelis. Acheson does not necessarily approve the attack on Egypt, but thinks that once it was begun...
...Dutch diver named Flip Gwoud suited up aboard a Danish launch at the southern entrance to the Suez Canal. Then he slid over the side to mark the sunken wreck of the Egyptian frigate Abikir. Minutes later the Danish tug Protector chugged past to start work on a wrecked dredger blockading passage eight miles farther north. Thus at last the U.N. salvage fleet began its huge job of clearing the 40 wrecks that block the Suez Canal...
...playing off East against West. As if to flaunt in Western faces the possible consequences of calling him to account, Nasser gave nine Soviet correspondents a two-hour interview in which he thanked the Russians for sending him military aid "without conditions" and for offering "volunteers" to fight the Suez invaders. Said Nasser: "I wish for this friendship to grow and develop in strength." A Nasser aide announced that the Anglo-French attack on Suez had freed Egypt from its commitment to negotiate for nonpolitical operation of the canal in accordance with the U.N.'s "six principles." Cairo later...
...short spasm of celebration. As his troops and tanks moved in, the snipers that the inflammatory Cairo press had played up as second Stalingraders fired their rifles in the air. Then they rushed to pull down the 57-ft. statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, French-born father of the Suez Canal. With police cordoning the crowd, three successive charges of dynamite toppled the statue in a shower of bronze splinters. Boys fired at the great figure as it fell, then trampled the wreckage, shouting: "Down with Britain and France...
...wish something exciting would happen," Lieut. Anthony Moorhouse, 20, wrote his family from Suez. Life after the cease-fire was getting monotonous for a young officer doing his national service with the British forces in Egypt. His father, a prosperous jam and preserves manufacturer from Leeds, read the letter in a taxi en route to a business engagement in London and smiled at his eldest son's restiveness. For the moment the headlines on the news vendor's sign just across the street seemed remote and unimportant. BRITISH OFFICER KIDNAPED IN PORT SAID, they read. It wasn...