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...threat of force all but disappeared from the Suez crisis last week, and a Western strategy of massive but peaceful pressure took its place...
...Great Britain and France, who had seemed to be moving in divergent directions, came together in a united plan. They confronted Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser with the chance to back down from his West-flouting seizure of the Suez Canal or the risk of exposing his impoverished nation to an economic squeeze. The new approach to the crisis was the West's "users' plan," sketched out by U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and presented publicly by Britain's Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in Parliament (see below...
Under the plan, an association of nations using the Suez would hire its own pilots, regulate traffic and collect the tolls. Egypt would be asked to cooperate, and would be paid for its contributed facilities. If Egypt refused to cooperate, the users would set in motion the grand plan of economic strategy, underwritten by the U.S. and described as the Suez Sea Lift (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...plan "means war"-just as Dulles was about to explain to his press conference that that was precisely what it did not mean. Then, in his first important-if insufficient-shift toward compromise, Nasser let it be known through the Indian government that he would be ready to "internationalize" Suez Canal tolls, i.e., let a conference of canal users set the rates. But on the core of the matter-Egypt's refusal to relinquish control of the canal to international supervision -Gamal Abdel Nasser stood firm, awaiting the next challenge...
...came at midnight Friday. Bags in hand, many of them leaving all but their most personal belongings behind, 93 of the pilots employed by the deposed Suez Canal Co. walked off their jobs and out of Egypt. Some, particularly the British, were bitter. Said Captain James E. I. Peters, a veteran of 18 years on the canal: "We cannot work with a gun in our backs...