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...renouncing the use of force in the Middle East. While the Western powers were still busily explaining what a poor idea this was, the Russians blandly announced that they were about to release the text of the pre-Suez invasion notes in which Khrushchev had warned Sir Anthony Eden and French Premier Guy Mollet against attacking Egypt. In what they apparently considered a shrewd counterpunch, the British hastily published the notes before the Russians could-and thereby helped to remind the Arabs that Russia alone among major powers had sided with Egypt before the invasion...
...Harold Macmillan signed by spade-bearded Premier Bulganin. Ostensibly an appeal for restoration of friendly relations, the note was a compendium of familiar Russian gambits. In it, Bulganin:¶ Hinted that Russia would welcome a Big Four conference on the reunification of Germany. Expressed new interest in Sir Anthony Eden's Geneva proposal for a demilitarized zone in Central Europe. ¶ Reminded Macmillan that Britain's "comparatively small and densely populated territory" is, by recent British admission, virtually indefensible against nuclear attack...
...Maunoury rushed over to the Hotel Matignon, say the Brombergers, bringing to Premier Guy Mollet "on a silver platter the long-awaited occasion for intervention in Egypt." One interesting statement by the Brombergers that might salve some British consciences: until just before the Anglo-French ultimatum in Egypt, only Eden and Queen Elizabeth were privy to the plot. On Oct. 16, at the famous Paris meeting of Eden and Mollet, "Operation Mousquetaire" was decided on, but not until the French had reluctantly agreed to accept Eden's "embarrassing judicial fiction that the intervention was aimed at separating the belligerents...
...Brombergers lay the blame for the failure of the Suez campaign to Eden's failure to start the invasion ships from Malta until after hostilities had actually begun, to his belief that victory could be won by "aero-psychological" means, and to "the conjunction of America and Russia at the U.N., [which] smothered the debarkation in embryo...
...recent 36,000 mile trip ("Perhaps I shouldn't tell you, but I believe the schools were rioting"), he whisked his young audience through 20 different lands, dropping offbeat bits of information on the way. The Seychelles, he explained, are "supposed to be the original Garden of Eden. They grow a double-ended coconut there that is supposed to be the original Forbidden Fruit. I'm not surprised. I tasted some. I think Adam was very ill-advised to taste...