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...strong and unyielding words, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden last week made the British government's position in Cyprus clear and flat. Without bothering to clothe it in the familiar language of imperialistic idealism, Sir Anthony defined Britain's stake in one word: oil. "Our country's industrial life and that of Western Europe," he told a Tory Party audience in Norwich, "depend today, and must depend for many years, on oil supplies from the Middle East. If ever our oil resources were imperiled, we should be compelled to defend them. The facilities we need in Cyprus...
...Tory government of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden has never brought itself to deal with Britain's hectic inflationary boom as sternly as its danger demanded. Gratified by the boom, relieved to be free of austerity, taking credit for the prosperity, the Tories have hesitated to air their anxieties too loudly. "This is the government that whispered 'Wolf!'" said one London wit. But last week, in the midst of London's gayest and most expensive social season since the war, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan cried it aloud...
...years ago, when the diehard "Suez rebels" on the Conservative backbenches objected violently to Britain's withdrawal from the Suez Canal zone, Eden himself had argued: "In the Middle East, as elsewhere, our defense arrangements must be based on consent and cooperation with the peoples concerned." He was criticized then by zealot imperialists for giving up British territory. When British evacuation of the Suez was followed by Lieut. General Glubb Pasha's expulsion from Jordan, and Britain's whole Middle East position was threatened, Eden decided to stand firm on Cyprus. Earl Attlee observed: "The government...
...with the strength of the two great parties almost equal as in the U.S., and with the party in power having captured the politically desirable middle, the opposition has found it hard to seize a good issue. A rigorous repressive policy in Cyprus may yet provide it. At first, Eden's show of firmness uplifted a people disheartened by retreats, but an underlying disquiet remains. The policy of holding "at whatever cost" had the sound of yesterday about...
...mont: Pathmarker of the West has ceased to tease biographers, there will still remain the practical visionary of the Narratives, fully happy for perhaps the only period of his life as he crisscrossed and described a vast, spacious wilderness with the freshness of a man awakening in an Eden. His wife wrote his epitaph: "From the ashes of his campfires have sprung cities...