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...years ago, when the diehard "Suez rebels" on the Conservative backbenches objected violently to Britain's withdrawal from the Suez Canal zone, Eden himself had argued: "In the Middle East, as elsewhere, our defense arrangements must be based on consent and cooperation with the peoples concerned." He was criticized then by zealot imperialists for giving up British territory. When British evacuation of the Suez was followed by Lieut. General Glubb Pasha's expulsion from Jordan, and Britain's whole Middle East position was threatened, Eden decided to stand firm on Cyprus. Earl Attlee observed: "The government...
...lease guaranteeing free use of the sizable air, troop and naval base they are now building on the Episkopi Bay; NATO could underwrite a Greek guarantee so that Britain need not fear that one concession would lead to another, as in Egypt when the British were driven from the Suez Canal Zone...
...sides in the Middle East, while the U.S. continues to favor an impartial stand, however precarious. The side Britain has chosen is not pro-Israel, but anti-Nasser. Egypt's 38-year-old military ruler, once hopefully regarded by the British-even though he drove them from the Suez-is now in British eyes the Middle East's Villain...
...other plan could circumvent them. To act in concert with Great Britain and France would appear no less imperialistic than unilateral intervention. In fact, intervention by the United States alone might well be more acceptable to the Middle East, which associates France with Algeria and Britain with the Suez. If forced to act alone, Eisenhower assures the United States a greater freedom--both to act quickly and with less of a taint of colonialism...
...King Idris was a firm friend of the West. So was young (35), balding Prime Minister Mustafa ben Halim. In exchange for a $10.5 million annual subsidy, Libya allowed the British to maintain a major air base near Tobruk, and when Premier Nasser forced the British out of the Suez Canal, the British also moved in an armored division. So far, the U.S. has contributed $12 million in Point Four aid and for maintenance of the huge Wheelus Field air base near Tripoli. Wheelus Field, with its long runways, its 11,000 officers and men, is a key airfield...