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Overt & Covert. Much of the uproar, as the U.S. duly noted and compensated for, was due to the fact that the politicians caught in the bloody draggle of Suez needed a scapegoat. Much of it reflected a last wild try to wreak a change in the U.S.'s stand against British-French-Israeli aggression in Suez. "If we all get hot enough under the collar," said the Daily Sketch, "the warmth of the conflict may perhaps penetrate the icy coldness and hostility in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Is London! | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Willing Scapegoat. In Washington, British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia had a confidential dinner with selected Washington pundits at the home of the Washington Post and Times Herald's Chalmers Roberts. There he confidentially criticized Dulles, explained that if Britain had not consulted the U.S. about the invasion of Egypt, Dulles had not consulted Britain on canceling the offer to build Egypt's Aswan High Dam. (The facts: Britain got one day's advance warning that the U.S. was considering cancellation; in any event, Britain had long been urging the U.S. to get tough with Nasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Is London! | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Actually, Washington did not object too much to being the scapegoat if that would help solve the crisis. By week's end the uproar, beneath its superficial abusiveness, was in fact creating fresh evidence that the character and vitality of the U.S.'s No. 1 ally was plainly not moribund. Many thoughtful Britons, in debating the crisis internally, had reasoned their way through the confusion to a new understanding of Britain's basic instincts for law and order. And in doing so they were once again in tune with that once-honored Freeman of the City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Is London! | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...colonial powers. Suffered, along with other Western countries, for its inability to help Hungary (even though the reason might be understood). Criticized in Britain and France for inaction in the Middle East. In Britain. anti-Americanism is now the private, and can soon be expected to become the public, scapegoat of the Tories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD CRISIS: Reputations Readjusted | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Foreign Scapegoats. Tariffs have been halved in the past generation, Bidwell acknowledged, and an increasing majority of U.S. businessmen favor still more slicing. However, Bidwell observed, "when business is bad, American firms are tempted to make a scapegoat of foreign competition, although their difficulties may have arisen principally from domestic causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: A Case for Lower Tariffs | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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