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...recently estranged, friends. A Washington caller last week: French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, paving the way for a possible call by Premier Guy Mollet. England's Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS) was also prepared to visit, was assured a warmer welcome than could have been possible for Anthony Eden. And at week's end came hints of a caller whose appearance would do more for the Western alliance than a regiment of bustling, brief-cased statesmen. To Britain's Queen Elizabeth went overtures for a state visit, possibly in October. If the Queen is agreeable, a formal...
...tired, sick, dispirited man emerged from 10 Downing Street, climbed into his official car, and sped through the chill January darkness to Buckingham Palace. Minutes later, the palace announced that Queen Elizabeth "was pleased to accept" the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden. Swinging out through the palace gates, Eden's black Humber rolled through London's darkened back streets, flashing headlights to warn police of its approach. It stopped opposite the Victorian pile of the Museum of Natural History, where another car waited. A slim, feminine figure in a red cossack hat and pale, loose coat, and carrying...
...Eden Must Go. Few had anticipated Macmillan's choice: the Economist called it "startling." But for weeks, Tories had known in their hearts that Sir Anthony would have to go; it had only been a question of time. It was not merely that he had miscalculated grievously on a matter of vital national policy-straining the U.S. alliance as it had never been strained before, bitterly dividing his own country, coming within a hairsbreadth of shattering the Commonwealth, blocking the canal he sought to seize. A man of greater flair might have carried off as great a blunder...
Even before Eden's health collapsed under "severe overstrain" and he flew to Jamaica for three weeks' rest, the talk in St. James's political clubs had been on the choice of the man who should succeed Eden. Eden, fully aware of the talk, was ready to go as soon as the succession was settled...
...nerve back in Jamaica. Returning in mid-December, he told the nation that he was "absolutely fit," and defiantly insisted: "I am convinced-more convinced than I have ever been before about anything in my public life-that we were right. History will prove us right." Plainly, Eden had no intention of quitting just then. Perhaps he had hoped that, in his absence, the bitter dispute over Suez would have subsided...