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...Suez Canal or the risk of exposing his impoverished nation to an economic squeeze. The new approach to the crisis was the West's "users' plan," sketched out by U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and presented publicly by Britain's Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in Parliament (see below...
...users' plan of the Western powers seemed truly to catch Nasser unawares. "Instead of continuing the game," the tennis-playing young dictator complained to a friend, "Eden has picked up the ball and walked off the court." In uncharacteristic haste Nasser ordered his Washington ambassador to protest to John Foster Dulles that the plan "means war"-just as Dulles was about to explain to his press conference that that was precisely what it did not mean. Then, in his first important-if insufficient-shift toward compromise, Nasser let it be known through the Indian government that he would...
...British aircraft carrier stood at the ready, and a supply fleet of 130,000 tons waited off Southampton to load equipment for the Middle East. Britain's Anthony Eden seemed confronted with the choice of making good on his assiduous saber-rattling or accepting a humiliating backdown. "Will there be war over Suez?" was the question on British minds last week as the Prime Minister stepped to the dispatch box in the House of Commons and faced an aroused Labor Party, vociferously vowing to pluck him bodily from the brink...
...Eden was calm and forceful. Unknown to the Laborites, he had got a firm U.S. commitment to participate in the canal users' association, had finished penciling the proposal into his speech only minutes before. Quietly, he reviewed the history of the unsuccessful Menzies' mission to Cairo, then sprang the users' plan on a surprised Opposition...
Peace & Provocation. The Labor benches bristled in anticipation as Eden began to elaborate. The association, he said, would ask Nasser to let its ships pass through the canal. "If the Egyptian government should seek to interfere ["Deliberate provocation!" cried a Laborite] with the operations of the association or refuse to extend to it the essential minimum of cooperation, then that government will once more be in breach of the Convention of 1888." A heckler shouted: "What a peacemaker...