Word: canal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absence. At 11:45 p.m. the statement was issued that Eden was "suffering from the effects of overstrain," and was canceling all public engagements. "He's just tired," explained Lady Eden in a speech next day. "During these past few weeks, I have felt as though the Suez Canal was flowing through our drawing room. He is anxious to get this enforced rest over as quickly as possible...
...group was in full cry. Nearly 40 Tory M.P.s sent a statement to Butler warning against any further softening of Britain's position. Conservative Angus Maude declared: "If we emerge humiliated, forced to crawl to the Americans for every drop of oil while Nasser triumphs on the Suez Canal, then there is no place for me or for scores of my colleagues in the Tory Party under its present leaders." Bluntly, he warned Butler against abandoning "our bargaining strength in return for American oil and dollars," adding that Butler "knows very well that no man who had steered this...
...that the Leader of the Opposition [has] spoken for Egypt"-whether Butler could "confirm that the troops will not be withdrawn from Port Said until Her Majesty's Government are satisfied that the U.N. is willing, and its police force is able, to secure international control of the canal." Said Butler carefully: "We are not prepared to withdraw until we consider that this force is competent to discharge the tasks which the Assembly has given it to do." Leader of the Opposition Hugh Gaitskell was instantly on his feet to challenge Butler's evasion. "Will the Leader...
...objective in the Middle East was to restore the situation that existed before the fighting started in Egypt. Reporting to the U.N. Advisory Committee on his conversations with Nasser, the quiet Swede indicated that he had freely accepted two fundamental Egyptian positions: 1) UNEF must withdraw from the Suez Canal Zone as soon as British and French troops leave Egypt; 2) repairs to the canal must await the Anglo-French withdrawal...
...British and French notes amounted to a declaration that Anglo-French forces would remain in Port Said until Egypt had been pressured into surrendering unilateral control of the Suez Canal. The Israeli government would surrender Sinai only after the U.N. found some way "to ensure Israel's security against the recurrence of the threat ... of attack" by the Arab nations...