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is trying to put summit over without us!"
CHINA-INDIA
AGREEMENT:
FIVE PRINCIPLES
OF PEACEFUL
CO-EXISTENCE
"Just a slight afteration between friends, Mr. Nehru.
Make it four points."
London Irono Service.
"THE" CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1959.
CONTINUING A FRESH LOOK AT A DECADE'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL DATE
SUEZ
The moral: Never start anything
No
you're not prepared to finish!
one who sat through the Suez debates in the House of Commons will ever forget them. The central figures, Sir Anthony Eden, firm, yet almost visibly ailing under the ceaseless strain; Mr Gaitskell casting aside his donnish manner and putting on the mask of hate; Mr Selwyn Lloyd. like a rock by the sea, apparently untouched and unmoved by the events that flowed around him, while Members in the House bayed at each other like wolves across the floor.
Now Sir Anthony Eden Here I would say quite has retired to the country categorically that the inter- and will soon publish his vention was right, and the justification. Mr Gaitskell only thing wrong was that still leads the Opposition, the operation was not com- because he has not yet learn- pleted.
DIARY OF A FAILURE
July 2-Colonel Nasser gounced
zionalisation at Suez Canal.
August 9.----Evacuation of Briza
wives and children from Cana! Zona
Kayist 16mLondon
Suez Canal,
Conference on
Sept, mbar 12.—Parliament debatea
Suez. Suez Canal Users', ANO ciation formed.
October 29.-Isaali troops invade Sinai Peninsula. British troops sall from Malta:
October 30. Anglo-French ultimatum to the fighting sent to Israel and Egypt. October $1, Egypt artialcin bombed and Egyptian frigate sunk..
Rovember `1.-Égyp? breaka oft diplomatic relations with Britain and France.
November 2.—United Nations asks
for cessation of hostilities, Normbar Britain, and France
• agree mubject to conditions Le.. troops stationed between Israeli and Egyptian forces. . November 5.—British and French paratroops land at Port Salt and
· Port Fund.
Novémber 6.—British and French troops axault Port Said and Port Fund. December 22-Last Anglo-French troope withdrawn from Port Sald
THIS is the second part of a new examination of the Suez Expedition which landed in Egypt three years ago. Today's writer was Parliamentary Private Socretary to Mr Selwyn Lloyd. He resigned in protest against the terms of the Anglo- French withdrawal.
by LORD LAMBTON, MP
when!
ed that the British nation
Right, not for the reasons resents the division of tho country in times of crises, sometimes quoted in this butting the and
Mr country, class divisions. Selwyn Lloyd is exactly Egyptians in their place violated relationships between reringeGeo where he was three years and showing there
still teeth in the old lion, countries became impossible. but because when Nasser
ago.
Right?
were
it wag at last