Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulganin's get-out-of-Egypt-or-else message. Now, hours after his speech, Israeli intelligence brought report of 40 Soviet-manned MIGs arriving in Syria. Though Russia might explain that its deal with Syria was strictly commercial, like the sale of arms to Egypt, Bulganin's threat-to Israel and to peace in general-was very real...
...three months since Nasser seized the Suez Canal Co., Anthony Eden has averaged less than five hours' sleep a night. He did not get 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...
Then Eden made a blunder. He fol lowed right on by reading his reply to Bulganin's note. Inescapably, the world was left with the impression that only Bulganin's threat had scared Eden into capitulation-an impression that the Russians successfully exploited among the Arabs of the Middle East...
...Eden's first announced purpose in invading Egypt was to 1) keep the belligerents apart, 2) protect Suez shipping from the threat of Israeli invasion. In fact...
...miscalculations began with Nasser. Indications are that Eden never expected and certainly never prepared his nation for all-out war with Egypt. Instead, Eden apparently believed that Nasser was a straw sphinx who would crumble at the first threat of military action against him. Eden may also have underestimated the depth and vigor of the U.S. response, and of the amount of moral indignation toward aggression still left in the world...