Word: mollet
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Mankind will never forgive Ben-Gurion, Eden and Mollet for the dirtiest blow to international justice and freedom...
...when Britain's Eden and France's Mollet put out feelers for a face-saving Washington summit conference, the White House was pointedly not listening. And when Swiss President Markus Feldmann proposed at week's end that the Big Four get together (with India's Nehru) in Switzerland, the President politely replied that the U.S. was conducting its crisis diplomacy through the U.N., and "I believe that the interests of all will be best served by carrying these initiatives to a successful conclusion...
...much that night. At 1:30 he was roused by a secretary carrying the 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...
...arms would not compensate for U.S. and world disapproval. One worry was that protracted fighting might provide the Russians with a pretext to send volunteers in massive numbers to Egypt, with untold consequences to the balance of power in the Middle East. By 1 p.m. Eden yielded. He advised Mollet: "We've practically won. Nasser cannot last long now, anyway...
...history. Tories got what consolation they could out of the renewed prospect of solidarity with the U.S. Scarcely had Eden finished speaking than he got a phone call from President Eisenhower, who interrupted his Election-Day concerns to express his approval of Eden's decision. Cried Mollet in Paris: "When the Soviet Union thought it saw a crack in the free world and wanted to threaten, we at once found the U.S. at our side...