Abstract

What Price Alliance? A Briton Warns the U. S.

The immediate crisis unleashed by the Anglo-French aggression against Egypt after the second world war, is over. Dangers and problems remain; and even the withdrawal of English and French troops from Egypt, if it can be enforced, will not suffice to exercise the devils, have loosed. But the fear of a Third World War has receded, and the whole world has heaved a mighty sigh of relief. The studied English affront to the United States is receding into the background like a bad dream, and already voices on both sides of the Atlantic are busy proclaiming "back to normal." That, very roughly, is the position a week after the acceptance of the United Nations' plan for ending the fighting. It is a very natural reaction. American policy, European commentators think, has come round to a more realistic appreciation of the situation.