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...that Britain had to withdraw from Suez without getting the canal or bringing down Nasser, Selwyn Lloyd had two options: to confess defeat or to brazen it through. He chose to claim a victory...
...British and French, bowing to the U.N., began withdrawing their forces from Suez with consequences which may in time bring down both their governments, a new wave of fighting broke out in Hungary, and the U.N. showed itself impotent to stop...
...word "collusion" hung like a mushroom-shaped cloud over the Suez debate in the House of Commons last week...
...Tory Randolph Churchill, it was clear that Eden, like the Suez forces, was planning a "phased withdrawal" from politics. But the lack of an undisputed successor in the true-blue Tory line made this difficult at the moment: the closest rivals were the acting Prime Minister, Richard A. Butler, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan-Rab Butler's claims to be first in line could not be lightly set aside, but some of the Tories most desirous of a change did not want to change to him, and it was to Butler's interest to keep Eden...
...first public reckoning of the economic cost of Eden's Suez policy hit Parliament like a splash of cold water, thrown by Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, whose sober demeanor seemed to say: in aqua frigida veritas. The jeers and roars that had greeted Selwyn Lloyd gave way to somber attentiveness when Macmillan gravely declared: "The customary monthly announcement on the gold and dollar reserves is being issued to the press today ... It shows a fall of $279 million in the reserves...