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Q $vOG . IV4`aeLeod Ross • ,
the Israeli sdrop.;
ped 400 :, paratroopers at Mitla
Pass, 38 miles . east of Suez.
Twelve Mysteres .patrolled the
• canal, while • the main, border
posts were quickl► captured,
French aircraft arrived -1n Israel
and French transport"planes
dropped • food and . arms on -the
troops occupying Hula, The'Brit-.
ish began their aerial watch on
the Egyptian airfields, "
The British cabinet now sent an
ultimatum, to both sides, calling
• on them' to withdr'aw.io 10 miles.
each side of the canal, Israel,
not being • anywhere near --the
canal, readily complied, while
Nasser 'refused. Apparently he
still thought',• Eden was bluffing,
as he sent his armored brigade
and reinforcements to, Sinai.,
British bombing, supposed to
start 36 ho. r after the Israelis
attacked, was ..delayed beeause it
was . decided not to r3skbm•
bears against MiGs in daylight:
The air offensive only began at
dusk .on Oct. 31, when Nasser
realised there `was no bluff. He
thereupon radteally changed his
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stJ...-x.�wegy__.The Israelis lad-1n'eem
rat
held; at M itia, and Gaza had not
• been attacked, but if the in•a.s.
ion force was to land atPortSaid
or Alexandria, it •was madness
to keep half his army at Sinai.
On the night of Oct. :31, Nasser
ordered a withdrawal and a con.
centration round Cairo.
In• the next' 48 haursr •4'7 ships
filled with concrete were sunk
.thea canal.,., Witite_the. Syrians.
„ ►1eW up three oil pu;nping stations
on -the •Iraq pipeline. Thus came ,
the first failure of. the Anglo.
French plan: the supply of oil..
was interrupted.
-- !1 e- bombing had successfully.
destroyed or dispersed the Egypt -
tan AJr Force to''the tune.of some
260 machines,. but the pamphlet
. drops, failed ..to intimidate. the
populace. -
` TheTsraeLis now, had tiooppos.
#tion at all and captured thousands
of 'withdrawing Egyptian troops,
took Gaza by assault ;andpursued
With the greatest elan, •
For a' yarlety-of, reason
among', them the confusion as to
what exactly- was happening, Eden
still probably had a` majority of
the country behind him._ But
'Eisenhower, only a week away
froth his election, was - ftlirious,
believing the allies hadbroken the
Tripartite Declaration.._ . Com-
. munication ,between the„British,
-and tJ...s-; --grove rnments sand yq
nil. Dulles • called for a kid
East cease fire and obtained a 64
to 5 approval from the UN, after
which he retired to hospital for
a ,cancer operation. The incensed
Pearson: of Canada put forward
a plan for a UN 'peace force to
occuprthe canal zone; which was
also approved.
- Thr focus now moves to Cyprus
where the British and French
�c_om Landers We a arguing about
possible change of plan. Under
the chairmanship of -Head; sent
by Eden, a modified plan wasA
worked out on Nov. 4; The air-
borne troops would drop ,next
morning, 24 hours before the fleet
arrived. The naval bombardment
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we
b hgld' to niun'i ' to
ensuroulde a safe landingamini, but thQ”'
idea of -capturing Cairo Was de.
Jeted and the :prime objective he.
'came 'the `capture of ' the cabal
zone. This the British come
mander estimated could be done
in 48 hours.
In the absenee of any op-
position, the Israelis had, by Nov.
4, captured all 'their objectives
at a,cost'of_2Q9 kdilled, as. against
2,000 .Egytptian a.ths. They had
Gala and the islands at the fpot
of the Gulf of Akaba, They now
announced they ,would accept thea
U. N. cease fire if Egypt did
so 0,149:. This shoQc , the allies,
whe,.now,-asked the; any i1ling Ben
Gurion` to delay his acceptance
of . the t,JN demand. _ _..�.
In Britain, opin"fbiil'ed, too.
Forty Conservative M,P's were
t organizing-ar-protest. The BBC
was also hostile; while the Lab-
or Opposition attacked the gov-
ernment
overnment all Week long. Under all
these pressures Eden was unable
to say whether the country was
at' war or not, but -they influenc-
ed
nfluenceed him -.to interfere with the detail.
ed running of the operation. Could
a landing be made on the east
side of the canal'? What was the
...latest that a delay of 24`liojars
could be made for t'the : airborne
landing? An admiral ;remarked:,
"Nelson would never, have -won
a ,angle victory if there had
been .a ..telex.";.Gaitskell of the`
Opposition iiow called for Eden's
resignation in, a BBC broadcast.
Anglo-French Attack
At dawn on Nov. 5,,--600 Brit-
ish and 487 French paratroops
dropped successfully outside
I'srt Said, . With only one, cu..ualty. El Moguy, the Egyptian
commaier .Qf .thePort, agreed as Predicted,, it was• the, e,
Entent
to discuss surrender, but Nasser
Cordiale which went. And while
would not °permit it, M dawn it' proved` that Britain cQu2d take.
on ' Nov, 6, the" naval .boinbard• military action without the U S.,A.
ment of Post Said -began. At rft also 'showed that we Could not
4:5Q a,m. the British cornmandoS , do so. while We Maintained a
went ashore, ' followed by tank0, . -reserve currency andatthe,same
Port Saidiinally surrendered late , ti a relied on Aineri,.ca icor 11 and-
in the. afternoon, when an.armour- f pr,Oteetion from the "hear";
ed column set ,off south for $uez.* • The: military aml?hibiousassult
During the eevening, , •when still
d0 miles: fr ,m° a m had been, most efficiently carried
o Su z the co an.
der of this ,column heard;pn,thC'4 out - and was a conspicuous
su�ceess: 1.1owever, .it was both
HBC news, that the governarient, Israel and Egypt, which gain's -Atte
had ordered a cease fire. So he
stopped in his track 'at El Cap, victories! To the forrner'freedom
22 miles south of Port' Said, Of the Gulf Of Akaba the des.
WhyAid Me cabinetagree on the , traction of the Gazabases and the
6th to. respect the• UN call? There " ruination of Egyptian military
was, no ,single reason. Israel and
Egypt had ceased to: fight, so
the overt reason for intervention
had gone. 'Eden's health: had also
gone, . from bad td worse._ New
Yorksellingsterling heavily.
British Id reserves had fallen
conside bly and Macmillan, the
Chancellor of tl}e Exclfequer,--had
reversed.himself and was threat-
ening to resign. Later the U. S.
offered to bac k a loan of $9,000,.
000 to hold the pound, if there
*as . a cease fire by midnight.
Eden phoned 'Moli.et at the same
time and presented hint -with a
fait accompli. The British Cab:
inet had agreed to the cease fire.
Arriere Pensees
Thus it was .that the Allies
handed over 'to a UN Force, Israel
withdrew, but the UN line held
,the Gulf of Akaba open to her.
The casualties. were 22 British
and 10 French killed, Betweenr650
and 1,000 Egyptians killed. Ten
allied aircraft lost,- four in r
accidents. Instead of the Anglo.
American alliance being broken,
prestige, and to Me Fatter: The
Canal,
Politically, the great Mistake
was the failure to m40 both pot.
'itical and diplomatic preparation
. for war, $o.mething which all 19th
century statesmen u dl`�ai,ve en..*
sured as a mattes Q course. if -
<only Britain had been `led by
'Hotspur, -instead of a Ha1nI :
• :
' Churchill s comment was: fli
cern not sure I would have' dared
to start, but I am 'sure I should
"let„have- cared to stop,”
The filial blow, half co li.cal,
half ° incomprehensible, carte .:in
late November when Selwyn Lloyd
visited Dulles in,liospital. Dulles
asked: !Why.did`'Y u stop?"
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