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...Near North. Internationally, too, Australia speaks these days with its own distinctive voice. Menzies is British in heart, soul and mind, and in the Suez crisis, after failing to persuade Nasser to accept international control of the canal, Menzies lined Australia behind Sir Anthony Eden's invasion. He did so against the will of former Australian Foreign Minister Richard Casey,-and only New Zealand in the rest of the Commonwealth sided with Britain...
...though he still calls himself "an unrepentant supporter of Anthony Eden" and insists that Australians "remain the Queen's men." Menzies has not let sentimental allegiance to Britain blind him to the fact that "empire defense" is a thing of the past. In 1952, despite Britain's unconcealed irritation at being excluded. Menzies led Australia into the ANZUS pact with the U.S. And he makes no bones about expecting ever closer relations with the U.S. Says he: "We don't expect America to pull our chestnuts out of the fire ... But the U.S. has developed responsibility marching...
Labor Pains. Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, plainly nettled by Eden's statement that he regarded Gaitskell's rise to leadership of the Labor Party as "a national misfortune," said that his own view of Eden as a Prime Minister was "even stronger," and bluntly called Eden's account of the Opposition's role during the Suez crisis "exceptionally misleading." By innuendo, Gaitskell revives the old charge of emotional instability in Eden caused by ill-health: "How it came about that [Eden] behaved in a manner completely at variance with his past is a mystery...
...three years since Suez have clearly not dissipated the distrust of the U.S. and contempt for the U.N. that the crisis evoked in right-wing British breasts. One of Eden's most influential advisers, the stooping, bespectacled Marquess of Salisbury (then Lord President of the Council), scornfully commented: "The fact that other members of the United Nations were not prepared, for whatever reasons, to do their duty [at Suez] was surely no excuse for us not doing ours...
Dulles' Role. In the London Sunday Times, Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, who regrets only that Eden called off the attack "too promptly," calls himself still "an unrepentant supporter of Anthony Eden," though he doubts that John Foster Dulles played quite so villainous a role as Eden suggested. ("In the course of my contacts with him I found him a man of great parts and integrity.") But with a condescension toward U.S. statesmanship worthy of the British Foreign Office of 50 years ago, Drew Middleton, London bureau chief for the New York Times, suggested in a review...