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...real pressures came from outside: from U.S. Ambassador Douglas Dillon calling three times during the week to urge the Premier to heed President Eisenhower's advice for a ceasefire. And they came from Anthony Eden, who by telephone from London asked Mollet for a joint cease-fire-and by midnight. Mollet wanted the cease-fire delayed for 36 hours, so that allied forces could take the whole Suez Canal. Eden refused. How about an extra 24 hours? No. Twelve hours? No. Six hours? Impossible, replied Eden. Mollet turned back to his ministers and shrugged...
...Brethren." On the Suez issue he was still defiant. "So long as there is a foreign force, one single foreign soldier in Egypt," said he, "we shall not begin repairing the canal and we shall not begin running the canal. Eden will never force us to surrender. Egypt was made to fight, my brethren, we were made to fight. After ten days of fighting, we are all of us one monolithic people...
...went on to make the amazing assertions that no Egyptian tanks or armored cars were lost in battle against the Israelis, that the Egyptian air force had shot down 18 Israeli planes and had been "in control of the battlefield" until the "great deception, treachery, perfidy" of Anthony Eden. The fact that none of the other Arab states gave Egypt active military assistance was also, said Nasser, part of Egyptian strategy. "King Saud called me by telephone," said the Egyptian President, "and told me that the Saudi Arabian army and money were at Egypt's service." So, he declared...
...immediate signs that the war had done anything to shake the Egyptian public's confidence in Nasser. (In Port Said, when a newsman asked a captured Egyptian civilian, "What do you think of Nasser now?", the prisoner squared his shoulders and blurted back: "What do you think of Eden...
Religion in Britain often appears subdued and on the decline. Yet the Eden government's intervention in Egypt roused Britain's churches to life and protest as no British government's action since the Boer War. Most of the Protestant clergy -both Established church and nonconformist-took their cue from the Archbishop of Canterbury ("Christian opinion ... is terribly uneasy and unhappy"). Said the Anglican Bishop of Chichester: "Britain has stood alone in the world before because she upheld moral principles at great cost to herself. But she stands almost alone today because she has acted in direct...