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...Eden's internal troubles were far from over. No sooner had he issued his cease fire promise than he began to hedge it: the British-French forces would not leave until an "effective" U.N. police force was on hand, and Britain's view of effective was one that included the British. Eden wanted to have his assaulting forces deputized into law-enforcing U.N. policemen. Britain only did "what the U.N. without a police force could not do in time," was Eden's argument...
...moment, Eden seemed to have weathered the worst. The impatient were glad that Eden had done something at last; the embarrassed were glad that he had stopped doing it. Most Britons were at least delighted to see Nasser taken down a peg. Attending the Lord Mayor's banquet in the Guildhall at week's end, Eden was applauded by crowds on the sidewalk, applauded again when the waiting dignitaries broke precedent to cheer him and Lady Eden as they entered on a flourish of trumpets. In pubs and farms, the reaction of many a normally loyal Labor voter...
Several influential journals-the Manchester Guardian, the Economist, the Observer- called bluntly for Eden's resignation. Already people were calling it "Eden...
Waiting Man. Because of this division in the country, Eden will undergo in the next few weeks a searching re-examination of a sort to which few other men have ever been subjected outside a court of law. But his deeds are more easily judged than the man, who has always remained curiously elusive. A classical product of a classical British education (Eton, Oxford and the Somme), Eden was an aristocrat by birth, the third son of irascible Sir William Eden, an unlovable country eccentric whose baronetcy dates back to the 17th century...
Case by Case. Some who know Eden well argue that this picture of the dithering, indecisive man is less than fair to him. Eden is a great proponent of the clean desk. A diplomatic telegram arrives from an embassy; he deals with it. An attack is made in the House of Commons; he chooses his line of defense without hesitation. At the level of specific answer to specific questions he is far more decisive and less of a procrastinator than Churchill. (When he was waked from a sound sleep to receive Bulganin's note, his first reaction...