Former MP for Aberdeenshire East
He tried to do it in.
I would advise the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Donnelly) to keep the name of Mr. Ernest Bevin out of these particular debates. The right hon. Gentleman was in many respects quite a good Foreign Secretary, but the less said about his Middle East policy the better. It was the most shameful abnegation of responsibility that this country has ever known. Having founded a national home for the...
Yes, he is, and I hope that he always will be. He is, indeed. We found ourselves in Washington, as journalists. There was a great conference going on, particularly about Middle Eastern policy.
Yes, exactly—between Sir Anthony Eden and President Eisenhower. At the end of it, they issued the most appalling communiqué, which I described at the time as a narcotic, though I would use an even harsher word now if I could do so and still keep within the bounds of Parliamentary language. The fact was that they pretended that they had reached some kind of agreement on the Middle East,...
I think that that is very true; and I do not believe that there is the slightest indication that Israel intends to take any action without prior consultation. Certainly, in this great crisis that has been going on in the Middle East for some time—for, after all, the Lebanon is not far from Israel; the Lebanon border was only fifteen miles from me the other day when I was at Haifa, and they...
It is physically possible to fly to Kuwait. There is an aerodrome there, and there is nothing to stop us flying there.
We should have left it to the Israelis.
I said that we should have left Suez to the Israelis. I did not say that we should now leave it to them. We should have left Suez to them, for in another three days they would have done all that we wanted to do.
