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When you see a pirate preparing to scuttle you, the obvious thing is to try to stop him in time. Eden glimpsed the Jolly Roger at Suez, and the enormous amount of Russian equipment already captured in the Middle East proved him right. Whether or no the evil day has been averted, it may possibly have been postponed...
...moment, neither Butler nor Macmillan was in position to take over leadership in Eden's absence. Butler was distrusted by the militants, Macmillan by the moderates. In this situation, a collective leadership was unquestionably the best the Tories could hope for. It was not yet Butler's time for power, and he knew it. "It has been brought to my attention that a certain degree of modesty in my present position would be wise," he told Commons wryly. "During the Prime Minister's absence. I hope that the House will accept it from me that the only...
...already Butler was artfully detaching himself from Eden. Addressing the Cambridge University Conservative Association, he said: "The Prime Minister is not ill. He has simply had a hell of a time, and it is essential he should have a holiday for a few weeks. He has been submitted probably to more pressure and more attack than almost any statesman in our history." Since Butler is not a man ever to be unwittingly indiscreet, his hearers caught the sly suggestion that Eden's "holiday" at the peak of his troubles indicated that Eden was just not tough enough...
...Privately, however, Lloyd began explaining to his U.N. colleagues that Britain was in fact determined to get out of Egypt as soon as possible and that continuing U.N. pressure for "immediate" withdrawal would only serve to stir up British national pride to such an extent that the Eden government might be forced to delay matters in order to save its skin. And in a final conciliatory burst, Britain sought to placate the Assembly by announcing that withdrawal of one battalion from Port Said would begin before the week was out. The Israelis, in an equally sudden access of amenability, announced...
...Franco-British attack on Egypt, last week goaded Old Socialist Norman Thomas into unwonted words of praise for the Eisenhower Administration. In a letter to 21 of the papers that carry the Alsops' column, Thomas marveled at the Alsops' "extraordinary adventure in support of the blundering Eden and the sorry socialist, Mollet." Said Thomas: "Suppose (as the Alsops would have it) that the U.N., with the President's approval, had put off a cease-fire in the Middle East. We might already have been caught in the first stages of that new world war which there...