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Bent on avoiding a flare-up in the smoking Suez crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Administration had tried to nudge the Israelis out of Sinai by threatening to support U.N. sanctions against Israel. President Eisenhower sent a warning letter to Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion, and both Ike and Secretary of State Dulles dropped public hints for Israeli consumption-at the same time hoping fervently that the hints would be enough to forestall an embarrassing U.N. vote on sanctions...
...aftermath of the "glorious" invasion, Israel found itself ingloriously alone. It could boast of but one steadfast friend these days: France. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion warned of "difficult political struggles" ahead, not so much with "our enemies" as with "peoples who do not hate Israel." Other Israelis noted glumly that some $30 million in U.S. grants-in-aid and a $75 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, both approved long before Israel's invasion of Egypt, had not been released since...
...sure that Nasser and the other Arab gangsters will never rise to Premier Ben-Gurion's moral heights. Israel has reached the pinnacle of ethical sensitivity...
...Goliath hard and good: David Ben-Gurion...
...clouded title), the U.N.'s next and much tougher task is to establish its Emergency Force along the Egyptian-Israeli 1949 armistice line, some 120 miles to the east. To judge by the beginnings, this may take a long time. In Jerusalem Premier David Ben-Gurion announced that "under no circumstances" would Israel agree to return the captured Gaza Strip of Palestine territory to Egypt. And in the Sinai desert, advancing Yugoslav elements of the UNEF found that the retreating Israelis had skillfully scorched the earth...