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...with the Russian volunteers simmer down. Russia's Bulganin wrote notes to Britain's Eden and France's Mollet in more placid phrases. Nasser's Egypt announced that it had no imminent need of Soviet volunteers after all. The U.N. police force moved into the Suez in sky-blue helmet liners, men out of faraway places clothed in the weighty moral sanction of the U.N. General Assembly (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...height of the Suez crisis, Russia's Premier Bulganin had threatened to rocket-bomb London and Paris (TIME, Nov. 12), but now the U.S. was plainly warning him not to. Said Gruenther: "If those rockets, however, should be used, bear this in mind: they will not destroy our capacity to retaliate, and just as sure as day follows night, that retaliation would take place. And as of now the Soviet Union would be destroyed." Gruenther pointed once more to the Soviet Union. "It is certainly a factor that people here must take into consideration before they would press...
Soviet tanks were out in the streets again. But the Soviet soldiers, Asian faces from faraway Mongolia and Kirghizstan, seemed utterly confused. Some asked whether the river Raba, which runs through Gyor, was "really the Suez Canal." At Kobanyia a Russian officer "sold" his tank to rebels for 44 Ibs. of bread. One reason the Soviet Union was not hitting harder may have been provided by a report that 5,000 to 6,000 disarmed and untrusted Soviet soldiers were being held in a camp at Satoraljaujhely. Other refugees reported 200 to 300 Russian deserters fighting on the side...
Early one morning last week a Swissair DC-6B set down ten miles from the Suez Canal city of Ismailia. Out of the plane, looking slightly airsick, trooped 45 apple-cheeked young Danish soldiers wearing sky-blue helmet liners and arm bands. Falling them in, 30-year-old 1st Lieut. Axel Bojsen marched his men past a hangar, gutted by British bombers, up to an Egyptian brigadier. "On behalf of the Egyptian armed forces," intoned the brigadier, "I welcome you as guests, as troops of the United Nations Emergency Force...
Both officers expressed hope that the present situation would convince Nasser that Israel cannot be tampered with. They hoped that peace would be the final resultant of the action, and that Israel would gain the right to use the Suez Canal. Col Nizan pointed out that Israel has no deep hatred of the Arabs, and that the two peoples can and must learn to live peacefully together...