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...London Times, though backing up Britain's show of force, this week conceded "the trouble with the present policy is that there is no obvious limit to it." The Times continued: "The final aim of British policy is not to control Egypt . . . or even the Suez Canal, which should be an international responsibility. It is to create a stable and defensible structure in the Middle East; and while one necessity for this is certainly a firm base in the Canal Zone, another is the cooperation of Egypt and other Arab nations...
...Britain!" and "Long Live Russia!" cried angry mobs in Egypt's capital, as flames and gunfire rattled and roared in Cairo last week. As the sporadic sniping of the past year turned suddenly into something close to war, a British fleet steamed full speed ahead from Malta to Suez, and the world watched...
...protests against the search led in turn to a telephone call relayed from Britain's sorely tried Suez Commander in Chief Sir George Erskine to Egyptian Interior Minister Serag el Din. General Erskine's demand: the Egyptian police must hand over their weapons and evacuate the Canal Zone. Otherwise, warned the British commander, Ismailia's police headquarters would be "destroyed by force." Serag el Din turned the ultimatum down cold and ordered his policemen to "resist to the last bullet...
...pleasure cruise: for five mid-Atlantic days the old warrior wrestled with i) a heavy cold, and 2) Britain's bloody embroilment with Egyptian nationalism. By ship-to-shore radio, Churchill kept in touch with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, approving the government's decision to reinforce Suez. Safe ashore at Southampton, Churchill had a brief word to say about his trip to Washington: "I've never had such a warm welcome, not even in wartime." Then he sped to London to take charge of the Egyptian crisis, to report to the cabinet on foreign matters...
Britons were solidly behind Churchill in his firm policy in Suez. But storms were brewing over the precise commitments involved in his Washington warnings to the Red Chinese. British left-wingers accuse Churchill of "selling out" to "applauding Congressmen" by aligning British with U.S. policy in the Far East...