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...South China Sea, was the machine-gun fire of Communist T-54 tanks. Then, out of a deep night along the Israel-Egypt border, there sprang forth two spearheads of a regular Israeli army advance, lunging 75 miles into Egyptian territory in the general direction of the Suez Canal. Unknown was whether Israel was launching an unusually deep retaliatory raid, or whether this was the beginning of the painful tidings that the President and Secretary of State had long feared and had long striven to prevent: an Israeli preventive...
...unfortunate that such action by the General Assembly might discourage Soviet cooperation in the Suez. But the freedom of Hungary is at least as important a problem as the Suez Canal situation. And it is a problem whose solution can not be delayed, even by hours...
...part of the hypothetical agreement, the United Nations must urge both parties to accept it as the the protector and administrator of Suez. This solution would require some hard swallowing from Nasser, but it is the only one which would possibly be acceptable to Great Britain, France, and Israel. Nasser would undoubtedly be upset, but, considering the continued flow of oil from Lebanon and Syria and the general Arabian fear of Nasser's domination, it unlikely that the rest of the Middle East would really mind...
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported Israeli claims that the whole Sinai Peninsula--150 miles wide at the Mediteranean end and 230 miles deep--had fallen to a successful Israeli pincer movement. The 20,000-man Egyptian force guarding the area was reported in full retreat toward the Suez Canal, where landings by British and French paratroops were expected momentarily...
...Cairo, meanwhile, President Gamal Abdel Nasser charged the British and French with "flagrant aggression" as air-raid sirens sounded repeatedly and Allied warplanes dominated the air over Suez with round-the-clock assaults on vital installations. Nasser said that he would fight "to the last drop of my blood" rather than "die in slavery...