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Your articles on the Suez situation are the most lucid and the most courageous I have seen anywhere. When the news of the French-British-Israeli attack on Egypt first broke, I, who have always been an Anglophile, was enraged, and I was as disillusioned as though my best friend had betrayed...
When you see a pirate preparing to scuttle you, the obvious thing is to try to stop him in time. Eden glimpsed the Jolly Roger at Suez, and the enormous amount of Russian equipment already captured in the Middle East proved him right. Whether or no the evil day has been averted, it may possibly have been postponed...
...United Kingdom area." The same oil-to-Europe word was flashed out to dozens of other tankers all over the Atlantic and Indian Oceans last week. In Washington the U.S. moved to ease Western Europe's oil shortage brought about by the blocking of the Suez Canal...
Heading the parade, Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express opened its columns to an anti-U.S. Laborite M.P., who wrote: "America is using Suez to do to Britain what Russia is doing to Hungary . . . The role assigned to us by Mr. Dulles is no more than that of a satellite...
Overt & Covert. Much of the uproar, as the U.S. duly noted and compensated for, was due to the fact that the politicians caught in the bloody draggle of Suez needed a scapegoat. Much of it reflected a last wild try to wreak a change in the U.S.'s stand against British-French-Israeli aggression in Suez. "If we all get hot enough under the collar," said the Daily Sketch, "the warmth of the conflict may perhaps penetrate the icy coldness and hostility in Washington...