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There was no need for U.N. forces in the area, he declared; Israel and Egypt could defend themselves. He promised that there would be no restrictions on navigation in the Suez or the Strait of Tiran. A permanent end to belligerency?all this, and more. But, he said, he must terminate the discussions if Begin continued to prove that he wanted land...
...became the first nation to recognize the newly created state of Israel. Relations reached their lowest ebb during the Eisenhower Administration. In 1956, Israeli forces, together with British and French troops, invaded Egypt after Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. At U.S. urging, the British and French pulled out within two months, but the Israelis remained behind. Dwight Eisenhower lambasted Israel on national TV in February 1957 and privately threatened economic sanctions. Two weeks later the Israelis withdrew...
...after a month of unsuccessful attempts to negotiate a diplomatic settlement. Thatcher's War Cabinet realized that it could not afford to lose U.S. sympathy. As a senior British Cabinet member told TIME, "We cannot and will not repeat the ghastly mistake of Sir Anthony Eden at Suez in 1956, when he led Great Britain into war without the backing of America." Of Prime Minister Thatcher, widely known as one of the most hawkish voices in her inner circle, the Cabinet member said that "Margaret's heart may be telling her to leap into the fray...
When I landed on a visit to North America on April 3, the day Parliament met on a Saturday for the first time since the Suez crisis in 1956, I was asked on all sides: What would happen next? I replied that the obvious first thing would be a blockade. What then? Repossession of South Georgia, I suggested, to give a land foothold and at the same time show that Britain meant business. And then? If the Argentine government could not see the possibility of a new entry into the negotiating field, there was likely to be a battle...
...America that saved England's neck in two world conflicts. England, for her part, has suffered a special kind of embitterment in the loss of world stature and of the control of her economic destiny. No matter. For the past 40 years (except for a momentary glower over Suez) we have remained each other's strongest and closest friend...