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...only been a question of time. It was not merely that he had miscalculated grievously on a matter of vital national policy-straining the U.S. alliance as it had never been strained before, bitterly dividing his own country, coming within a hairsbreadth of shattering the Commonwealth, blocking the canal he sought to seize. A man of greater flair might have carried off as great a blunder and outlived it. Rather it was that, faced with the consequences of his miscalculations, Eden was not up to rectifying the damage. In the Suez aftermath, nobody hated Eden; he was seen as pathetic...
With this team, Macmillan had to get Britain past the immediate crisis brought on by the blockage of the canal. He had to restore some self-respect to the Tory Party. In foreign policy, his first priority was to re-establish the old confidence between the U.S. and Britain. It was a task easier for Macmillan, who during the Suez crisis had described himself as "half American," than for Eden. Washington, which rebuffed all recent attempts of Eden...
...victory, after military defeat by the British, French and Israelis, has ended. The country is settling back into a chilling swamp of unsolved problems. Nasser finds himself in need of pulling something out of his hat-something as spectacular as his Communist arms deal or his seizure of the canal company. But the rabbits left in his hat, if any, are skimpier. What can he do now to stir the popular imagination that does not risk disastrous consequences...
Before the problem of the Suez Canal returns completely to its pre-October condition in the hands of the negotiators, it would be well to remember that something quite extraordinary and unprecedented occurred in the United Nations General Assembly during debates on the Israeli-French-British attack: the creation of a special U.N. Emergency Force, the first truly international police force in history. Its scope, of course, was and still is limited; but its significance, if it succeeds in Sinai and Suez, is broad indeed. As the armed representatives of the will of the U.N., the few thousand soldiers...
...U.N.E.F. ever would have come into existence if the contributing nations--including Commonwealth countries--had expected to fight the British army. The real task facing the U.N. troops is really just beginning to appear: to make sure that no conditions are put in the way of clearing the Suez Canal, and to become one means by which the U.N. can impose a solution of some sort on that area--perhaps as permanent border guards in an international corridor separating Israel from Egypt, if the General Assembly follows the suggestion of the British Labor Party...