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British newspapers reported an Anglo-French armada steaming toward Suez, and Cyprus-based parachutists ready to land in the canal zone...
Troop movements and other skullduggery are taking place so fast in the Suez area that any comment may be completely outmoded by the events of 5 hours. The general direction of things, however, seems only too clear...
...British have offered a ceasefire proposal which demands virtually nothing from the Israelis and is impossible for the Egyptians. The Israelis have naturally agreed to remain 10 miles from Suez; they may never have gotten closer anyway. For the Egyptians to withdraw from Suez would be absurd--they had no choice but to refuse...
...whole thing points to an obvious British-and-French inspired pretext for snatching Suez. Even President Eisenhower seems not to be taken in, which reveals how bald the scheme is. It amounts to the most anachronistic type of diplomacy running--the old gun-boat grab, and an inordinantly blatant specimen at that...
...average citizen the Anglo-French behavior seems so incredible that he cannot imagine what could have been done about it. Actually, however, the United States did have some advance warning in the massing of Israeli troops on the border. Considering Anglo-French feeling about Suez and the Arabs, the President might have anticipated their action. If, immediately upon hearing of the invasion, the President had condemned armed intervention of any country except under the auspices of the U.N. perhaps the British might have been prevented from wading...