The British press seems to have come to the conclusion in the last two days that President Eisenhower’s statement Monday that the U. S. would act against aggression in the Middle East within constitutional limitations was no more than an attempt to throw a barrier of words between Israelis and Arabs facing each other across hostile borders and represents no new American policy.
While British political circles took the White House statement at face value Monday, they were upset by reports of the meeting between Secretary of State Dulles and Congressional leaders yesterday and no longer feel that the U. S. is backing Britain and is prepared to act in the face of Middle East aggression.
A fairly typical newspaper reaction today is an editorial in the Manchester Guardian which declared; “The United States, in short, seems to say that it can be counted out of any immediate action. If Monday’s White House statement and the reports of the Dulles meeting “contain all the fruits of fresh American thinking on the Middle East, they seem to have been barren.”
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