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...Eden Returns...
Aware of opposition like Salisbury's in his own party, Harold Macmillan has worked to reverse Sir Anthony Eden's Suez policy without openly repudiating it. As one way of accomplishing this delicate task, Macmillan kept in office Eden's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, 52, whose disingenuous justification of Eden's Suez policy was not a high point in Britain's long diplomatic history. The press has been crying for Lloyd's resignation, and within the Tory Party itself, there is considerable malicious glee at the report that Sir Winston Churchill refers to Selwyn...
...Majesty's Government," announced the Prime Minister, "can no longer advise British shipowners to refrain from using the Suez Canal." Payment of canal dues, he went on, would be made in sterling-though Egypt's pre-Suez balance of $300 million, which was blocked by the Eden government, would remain frozen. Curtly, Macmillan said: "A much longer view will decide the rights and wrongs. This is not by any means the end of the story...
...Macmillan had the votes, despite his government's stammering defensiveness, and won the test of confidence -308 to 259. Aside from the eight rebel backbenchers, only six Tories, including Sir Anthony Eden's nephew John, failed to support the government. Even the blimpest of Blimps had to recognize that Macmillan had no practical alternative to allowing British ships through the canal at Nasser's price...
Such a proposal has been suggested by disarmament representative Harold Stassen and was originally proposed by Anthony Eden at the Geneva Conference of 1955. Though the plan would involve fundamental revisions of our European policy, these changes will probably be forced upon the administration either now or later. Stassen's plan calls for a "test tube" area of disarmament and inspection in West and East Germany and the neighboring satellites. If accepted, this neutralization plan can not only alleviate much tension in Central Europe but would also provide a proving ground for realistic control by inspection...