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...have done it. Anthony Eden is out by a combination of muddleheaded thinking, spouted by dithering Dulles, and a biased press...
...Eden has resigned in the interests of Anglo-American unity, then presumably we can expect a similar gesture from the U.S. Whatever he may believe himself, Dulles is a pontifical pain-in-the-neck to most Englishmen. Let's have a new man on your side too -fair's fair, y'know...
Sometimes, in pressing U.S. allies to join in solutions, he pressed too hard. In 1953 he threatened an "agonizing reappraisal" of U.S. policy for Western Europe if Europe failed to adopt the over-simplified European Defense Community. (Later he retreated gratefully to Anthony Eden's compromise Western European Union.) In abruptly canceling the Aswan Dam negotiations he provided Nasser with a public relations excuse for seizing the Suez Canal (which he had long intended to do anyway). Then Dulles, in a correct estimate that Britain and France were on the verge of war over Suez, jumped all too confusingly...
...London's Royal Albert Dock a drawn and ailing man, with his wife at his side, boarded the 16,000-ton cargo liner Rangitata. Sir Anthony Eden and his wife Clarissa were New Zealand-bound. Earlier Eden had postponed an official trip there; upon his resignation, the New Zealand government warmly renewed the invitation on a personal basis. "Godspeed to you all," said Eden to assembled well-wishers as his ship sailed...
...Eden announced that he was also resigning his seat in Parliament. Since outright resignation is considered a show of disloyalty to the Crown, he will follow the ancient practice of disqualifying himself by applying for a job of "honor and profit" under the Crown. This post has since 1742 been "Bailiff or Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds" - a job originally established to protect the Chiltern Hills from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down...