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...Minister Eden-Christ Church men at that, should countenance "this thing." He added darkly: "Duncan Sandys, brash, hard-faced, inhuman man that he is, was doubtless able to push it through because the Cabinet was exhausted by the Suez crisis...
...first announced by Britain's Sir Anthony Eden and elaborated by Dulles, the plan had been a challenge backed by the threat of detours around the canal, a sea lift of Western Hemisphere oil, and probably a complaint to the U.N. But, from the moment of his arrival in London, Dulles found only the British and French enthusiastic for this extreme potential of the users' idea-and they were bothered by the realization that the most that they could expect from the U.S. to defray the heavy cost of detour would be loans...
Into too many Laborite minds sprang a vision of a convoy of tankers led by British warships shooting their way along the 103-mile canal. Above the uproar, Eden's voice rang out. "In the event [of Egyptian interference]. Her Majesty's government and others concerned will be free to take such further steps as seem to be required, either through the United Nations or by other means, for the assertion of their rights." "What do you mean by that?" shouted Laborite S. O. Davies. "You are talking about...
...stay ferocious Sir Anthony from war. "Are we to take it that they also agreed with the proposition that the ships are to have pilots of their own and are to go through the canal whether or not Egypt likes it?" he demanded. What alarmed Gaitskell most was Eden's implied threat to use force without U.N. sanction. "We are reverting to international anarchy," he cried. "We are asserting the view that each nation decides in its own right what it is going to do, and we are saying that only power counts...
Beyond the Aegean, by Ilias Venezis. A poetic, nostalgic Greek lament for a pastoral Eden, as a boy and his grandfather knew it in pre-World War I Anatolia (TIME, Sept...