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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1957.

News From Britain - BY LES ARMOUR

WHEN WAS IT? POLLITT

THE ARGUMENT will go on as long as the argument has gone on about Munich. .....How did ́it como about? What was the vital moment of decision which made it inevitable that the Suez crisis would end up with such completos humiliation for Britain. Below: three views. Which writer gets nearest to the truth?

IN

BULLES MADE IT

A SCUA WITHOUT

A POINT

by SEFTON DELMER

TN my opinion, the moment of decision came on Sep-

tember 13.

ап

+

more beg in breach of the Convention of 1888....

"In that event her Majesty's Government and cerned will bo

others con- free to take

further steps, either through the United Nations or by other means, for the assertion of their rights."

Deserted

The ghastly moment which led to

this hour of shame?

P

GOLLAN

EACE has returned to

King Street. High abovo the rabble, and the fruit and vegetable marketa of Covent Gardon, the aging triumvirate Pollit, Gollan and Dutt cortinus to rule the British Com- munist Party untroubled.

Of course, 7,000 members

-Ani Mr and left in despair. Gollan himself admits that only struction of the 27,000 who

Find netion boen possible in of scuttle and shame on August have torn up thele party, cords that arst moment of hot anger 15, 1947...

Thai

day the

nominally rémofn are really

the „WDs Sizilets pulled out of India.

The day we preclaimed to the s world that any despot could twist our tall and get away; with it.

Y

ally taken in November would have been averted,

The point has been rammed the present humiliation would

by___ recent

In have been averted, eventa home

It is clear beyond doubt that Jordan, There crisis has been

American there has been the grussext In- averted because the Sixth Fleet demonstrated that competence and mismanage

"the". politicians it is capable of striking at once, ment, both by If need be.

and the Service chiefs.

Never has a higher price beer pald for Incompetence

Burma swiftly followed India, ratamanagement than that which The Socialists moved on to is paki today, as Natser Laughs Abadan oo of Britain's most aloud in Cairo and- British dazzling ussels. tankers allde through the Congl

The

AND then Mr Dulles, having WHEN THEY SAID

led Britain and France, to the brink, withdrew and made SCUA a skewer without a point.

A

IT WILL TAKE SIX WEEKS

once more.

He Had Courage

and

NTHONY EDEN was driven out of public lite because least, had the courage to the gangster

Socialists natlenulised British Industry. And the Persians claimed every right to follow the British Sociallat example.

The weak and inept handling the of these situations by Socialiste gave encouragement to every power-socker, in the But no man can fight success Empire. fully on two Ironls, And in Under the guise of indepen- of the polley they dence from the British yoke, initiated over India the British encouraged by the eck-headed Socialists opened a second front do-gooders of the Sociallet Porty, the Nassers of life at Westminster over Suez.

You can

pursuance

Then the vacillating John Foster Dulles went back on

At IS Fress conference in his own brinkmun plan for Washington on September 13 he declared that the US, in 'no a showdown with Nasser.

This was that the Suez way through the Canal.

-way contemplated shooting its by DEREK MARKS Canal Users' Association What was

Dullco more, Me

THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1956, he at nobody else. Thortly before midnight to stand up (SCUA), set up at Dulles's raid he hoped own special suggestion, would attempt to do so,

That Was the moment when Nasser. it in still further, anal And to rub should call Nasser's bluff by

surrender and object he made 14 civar that the humiliation over the Suez Canal sending International United States not only opposed became inevitable. convoy through the Canal, military warfare

against Nasser which would refuse to pay but economic warfare as well.

lew hours earlier Nasser

had announced *the dues to the Canal Company. In thus blunting the skewer, nationalisation of the Canal,

If Nasser let the convoy the French at the brink, Messrs. and deserting the British and

The nowe was taken in to Sir through, he would lose fuce Dates and Eisenhower made it Anthony Eden, who was presld- and be finished.

quito clear that not only was g at a dinner at 10, Downing the United States not going to Street in honour of young King

Feisal of Iraq, intervention by, its back any

Immediately after the

dinner the Western Europe's interests, but service chicts.

in defence of European alles

broke up Eden sent for the The Prime the they even

meant to stop them Minister's intention was to call from doing it on their own.

for The alliance was split, The triumph of Rusals and Nasser on this issue was from now on inevitable.

If he stopped it, he would be_breaking Egypt's under- takings guaranteeing right of passage of Canul.

What is more, he would have created the incident when Pre- sident Elsenhower himscit had suid was all that, was needed for the outraged Powers to reply to force with force.

For all practical purposes, Mr Dulles had agreed to this plan.. That, at all events, was the im- pression he had given

E

In The Telegram

\VERYTHING had been fixed

The convoy and the Anglom. French force to push it through

the Canal were ready.

01-

Sir Anthony. Edea, in nouncing the... erentión of' thị Canal Users' Association to the House

of Commons on Septem- ber 12 had taken the

Ken the precaution embodying in his own words the salient, relevant, and essen- tial passage in Mr. Dulles's tele Tam, by which the U.S. Stat Secretary had, bocked SCUA,

Stato

"If the Egyptian Govetament should seek to interfere with the operations of the association," said Sir Anthony Eden,; "then" that Government will

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swift, direct action to safeguard British interests.

But the Service chlefs could not mount any sort of blow, Though they had more 20,000 troops on Cyprus; though

than

Warning there were garrisons in Malta,

Gibraltar, Libya, and Jordan they asked for six weeks' notice miserablo failure of before they could be ready THE

action when it was eventu move against Nasser, **

THE

Friell

LEBANON

SYRIA

be sure that when sprouted. the historians come to write of our life and times the Socialists Malaya,

will have much to answer for.

I GO RIGHT BACK TO AUG, 15, 1947

by FREDERICK ELLIS

BLAME

There

followed Ghana,

Singapore, Cyprus Malta-and. Nasser, himself.

Nasser knew he was on to a good thing the very day the Inst British soldier loft tho. Suez Canal Zone,

To be British had become a dirty word in those lush meet. ing places of world diplomala who thrive

on their

But at least the triumvirate has managed to weather the storm and the parly, for the record, remains true to Moscow,

The Eastor Conference of the party was billed do the great showdown. In fact, it produced only a handful of angry young men who did no more than provide good sport for the platform,

The triumvirate has been in business too long to be in ant danger from the floor,, * The system of delegate pelection makes it reasotably cortain that hero will 'ba'no revolutions in the party of revolution,"

of

Yet the party is, for purposes

practical politics, Balshed.

ffs appeal, in so far as it had any appeal, was to the Ideals of social reform and soc at betterment, The Kremlin "confessions", about Stalin and the Soviet troops in Hungary made it clear enough that the appeal was false and they did have their repercussions even in King Street,

PROPOSED REFORM

Proposals for reform of the British party have been plotill ful in the last year. fax-tree

Each nád every

ono-has

been turned down by the party leaders,

* emoluments and luxury living

in world capital.

And can you blame the men who seek to suizo power when they saw the spineles examples the post-War* Socialist Governmentf

to LAME the

for of Socialists Suez They set the pattern

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all countries

Why? The 7,000 members who have walked are nearly all convinced that the explanation

Just that. the British Communist Party really is an organ sallon whose sole purpose le the furtherance of whatever the Kermlin bus determined,

The only other explanation seems to be that the leaders of the party, like all political leaders, are extremely reluctant to admit that they might ever have been wrong.

In other fairly recent con- vocations the Independent Labour Parly met and decided that it was opposed to both the Conservatives and the official Labour Party-not to mentibu the Communists,

The

National

Union

Teachers met and decided that

teachers were extremely vaipable members of the community who were

overworked, underpald

and generally maltreated. They also

bo

doelded that, henceforth; everyone who teachon ought ta taught to teach Fand (curiously, as "The Timo pointed out) that it was more important that teachers should be trained in leaching than that - they should have learned some»

to teach.

Shopworkers Union, meanwhile, solemnly recorded that it could discover no domind among the public for longer shopping hours and told the government that it had clearly been misinformed about this matter, Happily, there WAS no one there to suggest that the Unlon was not perhaps the best collector of publle opinion fr this matter,

(Contd. on Page 7. Col.:1DE

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