Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were not satisfied with the government's equivocating position. That night a committee comprising all Tory backbenchers confronted Butler and Macmillan. Under the assault, the two rival leaders stood shoulder to shoulder. Butler spoke first: Britain would work with the U.N.. but it would not withdraw from Port Said until it was satisfied. Then Macmillan rose, gave an impassioned speech. He ran over the tragedies that would ensue if the Tory Party split and the government fell. The U.N. would collapse, he declared; Britain would be isolated from its U.S. ally; Nasser would remain triumphant, and the Arab...
Next day Tory Backbencher Julian Amery leaped to his feet to demand-"Now that the Leader of the Opposition [has] spoken for Egypt"-whether Butler could "confirm that the troops will not be withdrawn from Port Said until Her Majesty's Government are satisfied that the U.N. is willing, and its police force is able, to secure international control of the canal." Said Butler carefully: "We are not prepared to withdraw until we consider that this force is competent to discharge the tasks which the Assembly has given it to do." Leader of the Opposition Hugh Gaitskell was instantly...
...would only serve to stir up British national pride to such an extent that the Eden government might be forced to delay matters in order to save its skin. And in a final conciliatory burst, Britain sought to placate the Assembly by announcing that withdrawal of one battalion from Port Said would begin before the week was out. The Israelis, in an equally sudden access of amenability, announced that they had withdrawn two brigades-about 6,000 men-from the Sinai peninsula...
...been disinterested. What was exercising the French Foreign Minister, as he freely admitted, was the fact that the U.N., unable to act against Russia, was clamping down hard on Britain and France. Less than 24 hours before Pineau spoke, 190 Norwegian riflemen of the United Nations Emergency Force entered Port Said amidst screams of welcome from a wild-eyed Egyptian mob. The Norwegians were the thin end of a wedge with which U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold intended to winkle the reluctant British and French out of Egypt...
...British and French notes amounted to a declaration that Anglo-French forces would remain in Port Said until Egypt had been pressured into surrendering unilateral control of the Suez Canal. The Israeli government would surrender Sinai only after the U.N. found some way "to ensure Israel's security against the recurrence of the threat ... of attack" by the Arab nations...