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...heads-of-states meeting under the auspices of the U.N. was a Western proposal, in answer to Khrushchev's wild offer of a Big-Five summit meeting in Geneva, was carefully worked out by the President, Secretary of State Dulles and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan; 2) the deployment of U.S. forces to Lebanon to protect a small government against threats of subversion was being accepted in the Middle East as the most significant display of Western strength and determination since Korea; 3) U.S. policies over the last fortnight, far from alienating world opinion, had brought...
...with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other top team members at the White House early in the week, the most pressing problem was not what to do about Lebanon or Jordan or Iraq, but what to do about Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a Khrushchev-Eisenhower-Macmillan-De Gaulle-Nehru-Hammarskjold summit meeting at Geneva (TIME, July 28) to bring the world back from the "brink of catastrophe...
...Arab Legion's famed English commander, Lieut. General Glubb Pasha, and ended the British $25 million-a-year subsidy to Jordan in an unsuccessful attempt to compromise with Nasser, turned now to Britain for help. Two days after the U.S. Marine landings in Lebanon, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons of Hussein's urgent message: "Jordan is faced with an imminent attempt by the United Arab Republic to create internal disorder and to overthrow the present regime." According to British intelligence, said Macmillan, Hussein was to have been assassinated that very afternoon...
...week's end Hussein announced that he had appealed to the U.S. to send troops to help him in a battle of survival against Syria and Egypt and "agents of international Communism," and talked of marching northward into Iraq to reverse the revolution. But Prime Minister Macmillan had made it clear that the British had sent the Red Devils to protect Hussein, King of Jordan, not Hussein, the head of the now-dissolved Arab Union with Iraq...
Britain: Laborites in the House of Commons cried "shame" at word of the U.S. landings, but Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell rejected the demands of leftist Laborites for a Commons vote on the issue of British support. Two days later, when Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced the dispatch of British paratroopers to Jordan, Labor again demanded a vote, and left itself wide open for a shrewd riposte by Macmillan: "If it is not right to vote against America, why is it right to vote against Britain?" The censure of British intervention was defeated...