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...great majority of the British people are fundamentally decent, law-abiding and peace-loving people, whose greatest faith and hope lie in an effective U.N. and an enduring Anglo-American alliance. Do not lose faith in these people because of the criminal actions of the Eden government...
Others who took sober second readings recognized, in the words of London's Spectator, "that the Americans did not go it alone; we have. The [British] government decided that the Anglo-American alliance was something that could be switched off like a tap. Almost immediately it got thirsty and tried to switch it on again. Finding it could not do so, it has been relieving its feelings by kicking...
...Harold Anthony Caccia, 50, who, thanks to Suez, walks into the tensest period of Anglo-American relations in a generation...
...escaped the Nazis by sailing for Crete on a yacht, was rescued when the yacht was sunk by German planes. During assignment to Allied North African Headquarters, he worked with many Americans now in key spots in Washington, including Dwight Eisenhower. Later he became British head of the Anglo-American political section of Allied Control Commission in Italy, then, in 1944, troubleshooter in liberated Greece. After the war, he helped reorganize Britain's Foreign Service in line with "Eden Reforms," then got plenty of experience wrangling with the Russians when he was sent to Vienna, in 1949, first...
...because it will have done irreparable harm to the prestige and reputation of our country. This action involved not only the abandonment but a positive assault upon the three principles which have governed British foreign policy for at least the last ten years-solidarity with the Commonwealth, the Anglo-American alliance, and adherence to the Charter of the United Nations...