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summoned the Egyptian ambassador to express U.S. shock at "the many intemperate, inaccurate and misleading statements" made by Nasser "during the past few days." Rejecting hotheaded talk that British troops should reoccupy the Canal Zone, the Eden government froze an estimated $1 billion of Egyptian assets (including the Canal Company's) in Great Britain. Defense secretaries took stock of aircraft carriers, destroyers and airborne troops available if needed. Alternate ways to avoid patronizing the Suez Canal were canvassed. The French talked of an old plan to dig a canal from Haifa to the Gulf of Aqaba, running through Israel...
Britain is considering a one-third cut in its defense budget - upwards of $1 billion a year-designed to ease the strained economy and conform to Prime Minister Eden's theories about "modern weapons" and "strategic changes in other nations." Up to now the British have viewed the next war as a trading of H-bombs followed by a "broken-backed" struggle for recovery, but they now accept the doctrine of U.S. Admiral Arthur Radford and other top British and U.S. airmen that the first big blow will settle things. The British therefore want to concentrate on guided missiles...
...this point, having brought things to a dead stop, Eden sought to regain the appearance of momentum. He announced that Lord Radcliffe. the eminent constitutional lawyer who arbitrated the tangled boundaries between new India and new Pakistan in 1947 would be sent to Cyprus to work on "the framework of a new liberal constitution." Then Eden set about fencing in Radcliffe's area of maneuver. Radcliffe may confer and chat with British officials on Cyprus and "any others who may wish to speak to him," said Eden, in fact with anyone except the man who mattered most, the exiled...
...Eden's statement pleased his diehard Tory backbenchers, but no one else. Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell raised such sharp questions that an ex-guardsman major on the Tory side got up, pale and indignant, to say that Gaitskell's remarks amounted "to one of the most highly treasonable statements ever made by a member of the Opposition." Amidst outraged howls, the major was forced to withdraw. Writing in the Spectator, waspish Randolph Churchill protested that Britain now had a Turkish Foreign Secretary, and added, "This is what passes for statesmanship in the Eden...
...retreat under Turkish pressure, the Eden government had made a concession of a sort in sending Lord Radcliffe to Cyprus, having hitherto refused to take any step at all while terrorism continued. Governor Sir John Harding, hoping to save face, said that Radcliffe was coming "now that the terrorists are beginning to crack." In Nicosia, "with deep resentment," the Greek Cypriot community declined to treat with Radcliffe while Archbishop Makarios was still in exile...