Word: bulganins
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...even as he spoke, stronger forces were gathering to strip the old lawgiver of his victory. Of Egypt's three invaders, only Ben-Gurion refused to pull his forces out of Egypt after receiving Bulganin's get-out-of-Egypt-or-else message. Now, hours after his speech, Israeli intelligence brought report of 40 Soviet-manned MIGs arriving in Syria. Though Russia might explain that its deal with Syria was strictly commercial, like the sale of arms to Egypt, Bulganin's threat-to Israel and to peace in general-was very real...
Next morning, surprisingly brisk and bright-eyed, he turned up at his office for the first time in a fortnight. Ben-Gurion drafted replies to Eisenhower and Bulganin. Asked how he felt, he grunted: "I have no time to feel ill." He called in leaders of all political parties except the Communists to tell them that the U.N. and the great powers were "not content with a mere cease-fire...
...three months since Nasser seized the Suez Canal Co., Anthony Eden has averaged less than five hours' sleep a night. He did not get much that night. At 1:30 he was roused by a secretary carrying the hectoring threat from Russia's Bulganin: "We are fully determined to crush the aggressors and restore peace in the East through the use of force." Minutes later, a worried Guy Mollet called from Paris. Then a message arrived from U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold announcing that both Egypt and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire. Eden summoned some of his advisers...
...that morning, Eden was up, faultlessly dressed, soundly breakfasted. All morning he met with his Cabinet. There was no dispute about how to ans'wer the Russian note. Cabinet members were cheered by the U.S.'s prompt reply that it would oppose Russian intervention and agreed that Bulganin should be told to mind his own business. But the members disputed long over the ceasefire. Butler reiterated his argument that further gains by British arms would not compensate for U.S. and world disapproval. One worry was that protracted fighting might provide the Russians with a pretext to send volunteers...
Then Eden made a blunder. He fol lowed right on by reading his reply to Bulganin's note. Inescapably, the world was left with the impression that only Bulganin's threat had scared Eden into capitulation-an impression that the Russians successfully exploited among the Arabs of the Middle East...