Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grave men gathered in the Cabinet room at 10 Downing Street were confronted with a problem unique in the proud history of Britain: they were afraid that Egypt and Israel would stop fighting and peace would break out in the Middle East. All Monday afternoon, as British paratroops ground down on Port Said and a Franco-British fleet hovered off the canal's mouth, Britain's Cabinet debated tensely. One member pointed out that the man who stepped in to referee a fight would hardly be justified in attacking the boxers if they stopped fighting. There...
...line with Eden's views, saying that Britain had intervened in Egypt only to stop the fighting. How could he go back to the House and say now that Britain refused the cease-fire even though the other combatants had stopped? If Britain kept fighting after Egypt and Israel had stopped, he added, the rupture with the U.S. might become irreparable...
...hectoring threat from Russia's Bulganin: "We are fully determined to crush the aggressors and restore peace in the East through the use of force." Minutes later, a worried Guy Mollet called from Paris. Then a message arrived from U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold announcing that both Egypt and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire. Eden summoned some of his advisers, did not get back to bed until...
...Eden pleaded that faced with Israel's sudden action the British and French had to act too swiftly for "the inevitably cumbrous processes" of the U.N. But the British had known of the Israelis' in tentions earlier, with France doing most of the dirty work in linking the three nations in conspiracy (TIME...
...Eden pleaded that Britain wanted to keep the canal open. The day of Israel's invasion a record northbound convoy of 36 ships moved through the canal. By the time British-French troops landed, the canal was blocked and will be for "several" months...