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...London British military men confided to newsmen that the Eden government had made its move in the conviction that Israel and the Arab states will be at war within 90 days and that Cyprus must then be transformed into a vital military base. It would need a turn of events of this magnitude to justify what now Deemed to be one of the most muddleheaded decisions of Prime Minister Eden's indecisive tenure...
...Anthony Eden's Conservative government trembled under heavy new blows. In past months the Prime Minister had been attacked for failing to take decisive and effective control over Britain's worsening domestic economy. Last week in the House of Commons the subject was foreign affairs-presumably the Prime Minister's specialty. Eden came under the strongest parliamentary attack he has ever faced, and his authority sank to its lowest level in his eleven months as Prime Minister...
Call for Action. Gaitskell might have broken Conservative unity if he had been willing to echo the demands of 30 or 35 back bench Tory rebels of the "Suez group," who smolder at the British retreat from the Suez, and accuse Eden of weakly appeasing the Arabs. Sitting behind Eden, they too wanted a new Middle Eastern approach: toughness and force. But Gaitskell refused to "go their way," and closed with a rousing peroration-"There is a desperate need at the moment for a lead which will both rally democratic forces and restore unity ... I hope the government will give...
...When Eden rose to reply after dinner, the Tories boosted him on his way with a sustained, vehement "Hear, hear." But the Prime Minister began badly. Discomfited by Labor heckling from the front bench opposite, Eden lost his usual urbanity. His voice was almost shrill as he complained that Labor was not giving him time to speak. Shouting that he had spoken "for 30 years in this House." Eden had to appeal to the Speaker to quiet the ridicule. A Churchill would have met the hecklers with confident abuse...
Dividing the House. Near the end of Eden's disjointed, defensive speech he made the mistake of calling Gait-skell's criticism of the Baghdad Pact "a milder echo of the Moscow radio," and had to take his words back. Having risen to Tory cheers, he sat down to a Labor thunder of "Resign! resign!" Gaitskell, shouting at the top of his lungs to be heard, cried: "In view of the totally unsatisfactory nature of the Prime Minister's reply, we shall divide the House...