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...Next Task. Nowhere had the U.S. stand against aggression in Suez been more hotly criticized than in Britain and France, but last week, after a speech by Vice
Then the Vice President moved on to the next logical phase of U.S. foreign policy. From the first day of Suez, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had insisted that the U.S. difference with its allies over Suez should not obscure the long-term values and meanings of the Atlantic alliance.* Nixon urged his listeners to give the British and French "eternal credit" for eventu ally accepting the U.N. resolutions on the cease-fire and withdrawal of troops. He urged less attention to fault-finding and more to seeking a long-range settlement in the Middle East...
...Said the President on Oct. 31: "We believe these actions [Suez] to have been taken in error, for we do not accept the use of force as a wise or proper instrument for the settlement of international disputes. To say this, in this particular instance, is in no way to minimize our friendship." *The British Broadcasting Corp. taped his speech for later rebroadcasting to Britain...
Meanwhile, in London, the Laborite Daily Mirror announced an essay contest on the question of what course Britain should now take in the Suez area. Irreverent prize promised the winning essayist: three weeks in Jamaica...
Long before Nasser seized the Suez Canal, the boom had started abroad in anticipation of a huge increase in the free world's oil consumption-and of possible trouble when Egypt could legally take over the canal in 1968. Today, more than 1,500 steamships and motorships, totaling 7,500,000 gross tons, are being built around the world. Great Britain, leader in the field, is constructing more than 2,000,000 gross tons, cannot promise deliveries on new orders until 1962. France is building 73 tankers and dry-cargo ships totaling 465,462 gross tons. This month...