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Except for the mutterings of some Tory rebels who fear that he is about to surrender Suez, the speech went relatively unchallenged. Clement Attlee could find nothing more severe to say than that Churchill had returned from Bermuda "a Father Christmas without presents." All was quiet, except for the area around Nye Bevan. Churchill's favorite target on the left. During his speech, Churchill remarked that "it would be a great pity if . . . relations between Britain and the United States . . . were to be increasingly expressed in what I might call Bevanite-McCarthy terms...
...realization that this decision may come sooner than they expect, and that it may be unfavorable, underlay a great colonial debate that welled up among Britons last week. The focus of debate was the British protectorate of Uganda, but the real context was wider. From Cape Town to Suez, the fabric of empire is visibly disintegrating. In the north, the vast Sudan fortnight ago turned its back on Britain (TIME, Dec. 7). In the south, Boer South Africa talks of becoming a republic, and of leaving the Commonwealth. In between (see map), there is war in Kenya, unrest in Nyasaland...
After three months of mutually suspicious parleying, often held together only by the unflagging good temper of U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Jefferson Caffery, Britain and Egypt last week fell out over the Suez. They decided to suspend their talks-but not to end them. Actually, their many original disagreements had been narrowed to two: ¶ Egypt's demand that the 4,000 British technicians (slated to stay on for 5½ years after 80,000 British troops leave, in order to train Egyptian replacements) wear civvies; Britain insists that they stay in uniform...
Egypt. Last May, Egypt's General Mohammed Naguib and his military junta were threatening war unless Britain ended her occupation of the Suez Canal zone. In three days in Egypt, Dulles impressed on Naguib the importance the U.S. attached to Britain's Suez base, the biggest military installation in the Middle East. Since Dulles' visit, Britain and Egypt have made progress toward an agreement which will give Egypt control of the Canal Zone but allow British military technicians to operate the base until Egyptians are taught...
...home away from home"--but sufficiently different to challenge him with the habits and thinking of other lands and nations." The Center's genial leisure fosters such an ideal. Students from hostile nations resolve their problems over the chessboard; Englishmen and Egyptians, over a pot of tea, discuss the Suez Canal bloodlessly. Hans and Eleanor feel that such intimate chats help build foundations for permanent friendship and understanding...