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...Western Europe's industry. None of these objectives would be achieved and all of these objectives would be jeopardized by a shooting war. In the tactical sense, the U.S. was ready to accept blame from the British for dragging its feet if that might give Prime Minister Anthony Eden a better chance for maneuvering in the new phases of the crisis...
...London last week, cocktail-party pundits predicted: "Nasser or Eden out of power by October." At a Socialist rally in Caterham, the Labor Party's foreign-affairs spokesman, Alfred Robens, cried that if peaceful negotiations with Nasser failed, Anthony Eden "has no alternative but to resign." One lover of historical irony, harking back to Ethiopian War days of Eden the boy-wonder diplomat, announced that Eden was about to end his career as he began it, talking about sanctions that he can't deliver...
...understandable why the conclusion-jumpers were so active. In the first angry days after Nasser's seizure of the Suez, Sir Anthony had talked tough. Last week, after a month and a half of inconclusive international consultations, culminating in the abortive Menzies mission to Cairo. Eden had softened. Now some of his fellow Tories demanded that he make good on his threats. On the other hand, the Labor Party, which represents roughly half the British population, was sharply opposed to the use of force against Egypt, pressed him to submit the case...
Entrenched. But though his position seemed precarious. Sir Anthony Eden was in fact better entrenched in No. 10 Downing Street than most of his critics and mourners recognized. His Tory critics were of no mind to risk bringing him down at the cost of new elections, and there was no other Tory at hand to replace him. Furthermore, Sir Anthony's un-Edenish tone and temper during the first days of the crisis, and his subsequent softening, could be understood and accepted by many Britons. In the first place, a very broad band of British public opinion was genuinely...
...with trepidation but almost with eagerness that Eden summoned Parliament from vacation last week to face up to the Suez crisis in an emergency session. Eden's political hand was not bad, and only serious misplaying of it could bring him to personal disaster...