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The Suez Pot Begins to Boil

7T\HIS is written at noon on Wed i nesday, September 12. It is a moment of crisis in world affairs. . A , As was pointed out here in August, Britain and France have reached the point of no-further-retreat be fore the wave of “anti-colonialism, promoted by Moscow and supported by Washington.

Blundering Nasser gave them exactly the kind of reason they needed for taking a stand in the Eastern Mediterranean against any further invasion of their well established Middle East rights.

Under American, Indian and Communist pressures, a month has been wasted in talk. Nasser has not surrendered one inch or one word of his July 26 grab at the Suez Canal. London and Pans now have decided that this talking phase has ended To-day, the Suez Canal Company is withdrawing its staff and organ isation. To-day, Nasser is scream ing with rage, and threatening to arrest the departing European

pilots. To-day, the Britis French are alerting their now waiting and ready in Malta, Tripoli and Southern To-day, the British Hok Commons is assembling, in. session. .

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