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...diehard Blimps, as usual, died hard. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,042,334), whose zealous devotion to imperialism has outlived the empire, usually flaunts its dislike of Sir Anthony Eden. But last week it hailed his action: "Let there be no doubt that it is a prudent step, a necessary step and one that deserves unqualified support from the nation." The chest-beating tabloid Daily Sketch (circ. 1,123,855) shrilled: "Stop the sniveling and close the ranks." But misgivings ran like chills through responsible Tory papers that staunchly upheld the government when the Suez crisis broke...
...free access to the U.S. mainland market, plus the common citizenship with the U.S. that lets the island's unemployed migrate freely. The majority of Puerto Ricans seem to like the commonwealth plan, and those who do not are split between Ferre's Statehood Party and the diehard Independence Party. With that advantage, Munoz Marin had little reason to run scared...
...France's tall, elegant Ambassador to Morocco. When Dubois picked up the receiver a Frenchman serving with the Moroccan police excitedly reported that the newly independent Moroccan government was rounding up more than 50 members and alleged sympathizers of Présence Française, the organization of diehard colons who cannot reconcile themselves to Moroccan independence. A week earlier Moroccan police had discovered that Présence Française was circulating leaflets which urged Morocco's Berber minority to rebel against "Arab domination" and "the Arab Sultan." No one seriously believed that a handful of leaflets...
...opposing (India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Russia), only Russia questioned its good faith. Even India's Krishna Menon, who had pushed an alternative plan giving control of the canal to Egypt, wound up saying "we will be only too happy" if the majority plan leads to a settlement. The one diehard of the conference turned out to be Russia's freshman Minister of Foreign Affairs Dimitry Shepilov, whose smiles, dinner parties and fine talk of "international cooperation" had raised Western hopes of a broad settlement in the conference's first days...
Eden's statement pleased his diehard Tory backbenchers, but no one else. Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell raised such sharp questions that an ex-guardsman major on the Tory side got up, pale and indignant, to say that Gaitskell's remarks amounted "to one of the most highly treasonable statements ever made by a member of the Opposition." Amidst outraged howls, the major was forced to withdraw. Writing in the Spectator, waspish Randolph Churchill protested that Britain now had a Turkish Foreign Secretary, and added, "This is what passes for statesmanship in the Eden...