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Moral Sanction. Not until the next afternoon did the dark threat of war with the Russian volunteers simmer down. Russia's Bulganin wrote notes to Britain's Eden and France's Mollet in more placid phrases. Nasser's Egypt announced that it had no imminent need of Soviet volunteers after all. The U.N. police force moved into the Suez in sky-blue helmet liners, men out of faraway places clothed in the weighty moral sanction of the U.N. General Assembly (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Anthony Eden's summary action in Egypt had already cost his nation from ?35 million to ?50 million. It had put the Suez Canal itself out of operation for perhaps six months, and reduced Britain's supply of vital Middle Eastern oil to a trickle. Valuable dollar reserves must be spent to buy oil elsewhere. "Whatever happens," said Harold Macmillan, "it is quite clear that there must be-I do not wish either to minimize it or exaggerate it -that there will be, a serious temporary effect upon our economy...
Though Anthony Eden seems to be coming safely through his political crisis over Suez, Britain's economic day of reckoning is still to come. "It's easy enough to rally the roast-beef opinion of the country," said one disillusioned Tory last week, "but the fact is, we're in a helluva mess. We haven't a shred left in the Middle East, and not much anywhere else...
...Adenauer will step down during the year. Sir Anthony Eden, whose health is worse than the public realizes, will take a much less part in the British government. Next spring or summer, Red China will begin its long-awaited attack on Quemoy and Matsu. The Matsus will be captured by the Chinese. A slump is due for midyear. However, I predict the Eisenhower Administration will dust off various public works plans reminiscent of Harold Ickes' PWA days. Congress will vote a very modest tax relief for low-income groups only. In midwinter President Eisenhower will announce that he will...
...Christian people, stop the war," proclaimed a banner at a Free Church Federal Council protest rally in Nottingham. A delegation of British church leaders called at 10 Downing Street, voiced the "deep concern of Christian opinion," and urged a cease-fire (Anthony Eden was too busy to see them). Dr. Donald Soper, fire-eating British Methodist leader who urged refusal to fight, led a protest march through London's West End. Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston, famed for his fight against apartheid in South Africa, called for even stronger condemnation by the churches: "Unless this is done, once again...