Prime Minister Anthony Eden virtually ruled out any proposal to turn the Suez Canal issue over to the United Nations on the grounds that since 1951 Egypt had been violating a UN Security Council resolution requesting the lifting of the Suez blockade against Israeli ships, it was indicated here today.
This indication was given by a Foreign Office spokesman, while reports from Cairo stated that Egypt is considering taking the Suez Canal case before the United Nations. The spokesman told newsmen that the UN had already had a try at a “relatively minor aspect” of the Suez Canal issue and had failed.
The Evening News, a Tory newspaper, called upon the British Government to stand by Israel as one of its “friends.” The paper stressed that Israel had acted “with patience and restraint” in a situation which was “terribly dangerous to her.” It declared that the “last wobbly treacherous Arab ‘ally,’ Iraq, has slithered off into Egypt’s camp, we can really give up trying to soothe the Arabs by being rude and contemptuous to Israel.”
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