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11/8/1956 - Fighting in Suez: Pakistan Pops Off by Walter D. Friedenberg

INSTITUTE OF CURRINT WORLD AFFAIRS WDF Nedous Hotel Fighting The Mall Pakistan Pops Off Lahore Pakistan Nov Rgers Institute Current World Affairs Ffth Avenue New Yerk Yerk Dear Mr Rogers We Lahore Upper Bari Doab Canal You would thought British French attacked The events Suez during touched public response included noise steam great smoke Nith obfuscations ppears terms public favor least Briti gusting Egypt active sympathy Russia gained creased espect America friendly skepticism My taken miles countryside touch Suez Hungary horse races Lahore It after British bombed C Phil Talbot I afterno Pakistani field wilds Jhelum district first heard Filling converss iasty Suez situation Yes replied Suez situation problem He reply casual formed everts His propaganda about Western imperialism proVed British French invasion The blunder would remembered Asia We following visite Khewza Salt Co miles lunch young British general manager talked British technicians They giving sound thrashin asser World opinion wouldn urderstand Eden rationale above should consulted States What should attack right after Ns nationalised candied attack begun We better through The cheeriest Britons general notified replecenent cleared Suez On stward would arrive within weeks We heard rumors Western riots Lahore Karachi although hurry schedule order retur Lahore whatever uprOar there anxious reaction Driving slight disappointing quiet A quick newspapers showed whatever happened banner heedlines preceding Anti Soviet WDF Rising Hungar mRebels Set Up OwnReglme swiftly shrunk moved frentpage Ther headlines telling Spearheads BritiSh Treops Landing Reported EgyptUhdamnted U K ranCe Vet U S Cease Fire Plan Th eclared W indignation St There someth Lahore unives Upthe Thursday estima strOng assemie theUmv ersity Pun marched The MallWith Shouts mDown Brit French Dbwn eriallSm Down Israel Bound British DepUty High commissioner office Race Course Read students checked briefly police brandishing lathis brass tipped billyclubs MeVi their tination stents blocked police British DHC managed PUll signboard after posing With their prize photographers tried afire avail Then arangued their leaders length dents resolved shout Government declare support Egypt promising volunteer fight yptia against Anglo French Israeli invaders By college ready school finia classes demonEtrations continued streets parks until afternoon It protest classes several students One We wanted misbehave police wouldn He apologized behalf young threw stones which smashed Windows US Information Service building They about For three there protests corners Ps_kistan Students strike stores markets closed embers Psrliament demanded associations urged lsdies Clubs called In public meetings sponsored Csl parties resolutions slogans ranged condemns Of Britain France seceding military forces oppose The Governent called Comonwelth Bghdad Pact SEATO report licerces British agencies nationalise B insurance comps volunteers iight alongside Egyptians token forces soldiers airmen It Major Goners Akbar Khan leftist Azad Free Pakistan party demanded creation milit contingent Egypt Air Com odore Janjua proposed governmet creating agression force All kistan ioined boycott British French goods On nother students Dacca Inorm tionService building burned Eden Nollet effigy In Kar crowd burned British police disper British reportedly locked Briton spent inside their homes countryside WDF2 British entiment there seems anoter element tumult shouting loalty Islam Dawn Engli language daily Karachi Eden Hitler throwS country honour cherished moral human international values which itself fostere windows Of Houses Westminster Thamss Of course But proceeds innocent Muslim blood Nile opening unbelievable Chapter perfidy violence history human Is again bigoted perverted Christen against world Islam alliance Jews Is threat poised against uslims Atlantic PacifiC Speakers meetings spoke spilling Muslim blood pointed British bombing mosqueS frequent catchphrase Muslim brotherhood Early proposal UN police making rounds strident slogans replaced pleas Reliel Egypt demands Restitutio Bomb Damage Now fuzzy reports hostilities withdrawal invading troops these developments reportedin Pakistani press Bulganin message Eisenhower called UN sanctioned joint Russ American military intervention Suez order aggression further bloodshed The US promptly refused place proposal Security Council agenda Then Bulganin warned Britain France fighting possible Soviet military retaliation simultaneously reported Britain France agreed rapid cease The morning lines Moscow prone Pakistan Times trumpeted U K France Order Cease Fire Egypt Soviet Tng Proves Eifective The US announcement would oppose Soviet effort inter Egypt shuffle A little pulse feeling order I tsike persons rather think citizens newspaper editor medical stu6ent bicycle owner I tried local equivalent proverbial barometer public opinion awala langua inability viewpoTV perhaps soignificnt Egypt Britannia Unanimously those talked agreed Dulganin letters Eden Mollet brought about fighting The US couter statement would oppose Soviet intervention ineifective Bulganin spoke bombs S rockets editor while Stshtes Would oppose What oppose The Russia actually threatened Britain S France after aggressors Why US threaten Britain France Because US Britain France WDF Whatever congratulations Americans affording America being right UN nullified ulganin letters Of course I States sponsored cesse resolution nothinft The States would forced Brit withdraw To question Were BUlnin letters anything words answers Yes Russians threatened because Staes wouldn Ce tainly Russians appear champions freedom defenseless countries Middle East In short whether US trumpe finessed immsterial USSR taken trick Indeed those I spoke Russian prestige climbd while American prestige sloped downward Russia Nasser stood Egyptians after national canal stopped British attack while US assisted British refused Aswan really nothing about Priish intervention What proposed UN police iorce Pakistan contribute Said editor The called police force should purpose British sraeli troops Fgyptian The canal belongs Egypt sight Of And businessman We oppose British French their methods The UI O going those using other metho Amidst cries discontent press political Government Prime Minister H S Suhrawardy paragon restraint Arriving state visit Chins Anglo French attack announced Minister could express alarm events Egypt The following C binet hours iorth ststement supoorting pr0posl emergency session UN General A ssembly stating Pakistan would condone uphold recourse Suez issue Since Government statements neither resolute early Prime Ninister Teheran meeting Baghdad Pact nations minus Britain How seriously Government repested demand Commonwealth andthe Baghdad Pact British Pact beyond The Baghdad agree seems under heaviest attack irritation those I talked The editorwas peeved about This lesson foreign affairs Pakistsn We British through Baghdad Psct tried divide uslim world Now attack Arsb friends On withdrawal Commonweslth there hedgng We still foreign assistance All events Suez during produced reaction partly binge partly Received New York