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...London last week, cocktail-party pundits predicted: "Nasser or Eden out of power by October." At a Socialist rally in Caterham, the Labor Party's foreign-affairs spokesman, Alfred Robens, cried that if peaceful negotiations with Nasser failed, Anthony Eden "has no alternative but to resign." One lover of historical irony, harking back to Ethiopian War days of Eden the boy-wonder diplomat, announced that Eden was about to end his career as he began it, talking about sanctions that he can't deliver...
...superstitious Englishmen were sure last week that Britain was "for it." "Woe Water" (which only runs just before a calamity) was tumbling down the hillsides of the Caterham Valley, about 20 miles south of London. Had not a bourne flowed out of the hills (according to local legend) before the Restoration in 1660 and the Plague in 1665, and again just before the revolution of 1688? Woe Water had run again in 1915, just two days before the German submarine campaign started, and in 1938, the year of Munich. The non-superstitious scoffed: an exceptionally wet winter had made...
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