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Less than nine months later, critics were calling him a "ditherer," and the staunchly Tory Daily Mail wailed: "We cannot go on like this''-a chorus so loud that No. 10 Downing Street felt impelled to deny formally that Eden had any intention of resigning...
...easily removed, to the public's indifference. But Nasser had not reached power that way, and was not so easily dislodgeable. This was one expert miscalculation; the second was the misjudgment of world opinion. In the deception that preceded the Suez venture and the evasions that followed it, Eden damaged the world's image of Britain. History's kindest verdict may be that he meant well and should have known better. The Evolution. The initiative to resign was Eden's own. The Tory Party was caught unprepared. In theory, the Queen herself designates the new Prime...
...other major dissent from the Tory leadership was foreign policy. Two years before Eden, he renounced the party whip (roughly equivalent to resignation from the party) in 1936, in protest against the failure to impose economic sanctions against Mussolini's Ethiopian invasion...
...restore some self-respect to the Tory Party. In foreign policy, his first priority was to re-establish the old confidence between the U.S. and Britain. It was a task easier for Macmillan, who during the Suez crisis had described himself as "half American," than for Eden. Washington, which rebuffed all recent attempts of Eden...
From Sir Anthony Eden, Macmillan inherits a comfortable Tory majority of 59 in the House of Commons, with which he will probably hope to hold off a general election until the Tories' five-year term runs out in 1960. Labor can be expected to demand a general election now, on the grounds that a new Prime Minister, and one who was not naturally heir apparent, should request a new mandate. As he came out of n Downing Street the first day, Harold Macmillan was asked whether he favored an early election. "No," he said with a confident bristle...