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Hitler and Benito passed to history with the tag "war criminals." What is the name for these two fools - Mollet and Eden - who set the world on fire...
Your Nov. 19 article on Sir Anthony Eden tries to demerit the greatest statesman and diplomat in the world. History will show who was great and who was so inept and so wanting. The latter will not be Sir Anthony...
Despite any good intentions for his country, Eden, via his appallingly reckless policies, has foisted upon an already troubled free world another onerous, odious potpourri of perplexities, anxieties, and fears...
...London last week nobody was more surprised than New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Don Cook when the Foreign Office's august Permanent Undersecretary, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, whisked him aside during a party to propound that unless the U.S. went along with the British on Suez, the Eden government would fall, and there would have to be elections in January; the implication was that anti-Americans of the right or left would pick up more power...
...still refused to arrange for emergency oil supplies until the British and French at least announced plans for withdrawal from Suez. After two hours' discussion, the Cabinet made the inevitable reluctant decision: Britain would withdraw. Significantly, in all the week's painful decisions, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in faraway Jamaica was reportedly consulted not once...