What Was Gained By Intervention?

This article focuses on the U.S.-Great Britain relations. The two leading moderates in the Conservative Government, R. A. Butler, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, have made public speeches in which they present the Angles American interventions, not as a return to the policies of Suez, but as a desperate attempt to gain just that extra breathing-space, in company with the U.S. administration, not for imposing the will on nationalism in the Middle East, but for living with it. Military intervention in the Middle East has united all the Arabs behind about for some way of escaping from self-imposed catastrophe. The U.S. has been unable to fly oil to Jordan from the Persian Gulf because Saudi Arabia refuses passage for the U.S. fear of provoking the revolution lie only rational ground for intervention in Lebanon at Bahrein refuse to load the oil.