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While British and French troops moved to the alert in the tense Suez Canal crisis, the U.S. last week took a firm stand for moderation. In one of the most unusual gambles in diplomatic history, the President and the Secretary of State proposed to confront Egypt's President Nasser with the pressures of moral law, then stood back to await the consequences...
...crisis. Seven hours after touchdown, he sat before the TV cameras in the President's office, listened attentively while the President introduced him. Said Dwight Eisenhower: "All of us ... were vastly disturbed when Colonel Nasser a few days ago declared that Egypt intended to nationalize the Suez Canal Company...
...Fancied Grievances." In schoolmaster fashion, Dulles spelled out the ABCs of the situation. The Suez Canal was by far the world's busiest waterway. It was open by international agreement at all hours to all vessels, and was vital to the West. Nasser had recognized the international status of the waterway only a couple of years ago, but now Nasser had nationalized the Canal Company "for purely selfish purposes...
Britain and France reacted last week to Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal with white-lipped anger. The dictator of the Nile had laid hands on Britain's lifeline to the East, and jeopardized Britain's Middle East oil supplies; he was laying a threat to Britain's very existence. The moral outrage at Nasser's action was matched by an acute awareness of a vital interest involved. The British government sent flattops, cruisers and squadrons of jet bombers flying off to the eastern Mediterranean, and at week's end thou sands...
Serpent's Head. The French were, if anything, angrier than the British. The Suez, after all, was French-built, and its expropriated company was one of France's bluest chips. But this was not the real basis of the French reaction. The nation is deep in a costly and frustrating struggle in Algeria, and chief aider and abettor of the rebels is Dictator Nasser. When Premier Guy Mollet ordered two-thirds of the French navy and a Moroccan division to be ready "to impose" a solution in the Suez, one Parisian growled: "Well worth...