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...wasn't the Suez matter taken immediately to the U.N.? Were Eden and Pineau afraid they could not find sufficiently favorable opinion there? Nasser could hardly have refused a summons from the U.N., while he certainly could ignore a conference of hand-picked delegates...
...burden of action falls on the U.S.-a fact that both Britain's Prime Minister Eden and Secretary of State Dulles clearly recognized in their public statements last week. But this time U.S. planners will not be caught napping. Since last May experts of the State, Commerce, Interior and Defense Departments and the Office of Defense Mobilization have been charting their course. In August, within a fortnight after Colonel Nasser's Suez seizure, the ODM had in hand a general "Plan of Action," now being worked out in detail by a crack Middle East Emergency Committee (made...
...American Excuse." One of Eden's gravest problems was the resistance of the U.S. to any but peaceful means of settling the crisis. But if the resistance of the U.S. to force was a handicap, it was also a tool for agile Sir Anthony. During the Korean war, the Truman Administration employed with some success the "British excuse"-the argument that the U.S. could not engage in all-out war with Red China without alienating, perhaps even losing, Britain and other allies. Now Eden can answer charges that his threats were empty blasts by offering Parliament the "American excuse...
...Thursday all capitals had learned that the Cairo talks had reached an impasse. While the first of 2,500 French paratroopers and airmen disembarked in Cyprus, Sir Anthony Eden met with his Cabinet in London, summoned Parliament to a special sitting. Nasser told a visitor that the situation made him feel like Samson about to pull down the pillars. On Friday, the Moslem day of rest, he went off to sun with his family on a beach. That evening a Menzies press officer told newsmen that "the talks have come to a complete end," that the committee was going home...
...communique will be issued which will not tell you anything besides the fact that the discussions have ended. Copies of the documents will be issued, and you will know as much as I know." With that the Prime Minister ordered his plane, flew back to report to Sir Anthony Eden in London, where the next phase of the Suez crisis began...