The Republican · Springfield, Massachusetts · 3 December 1956
CP-1956-016
Stalled Invaders Agree To Leave Without Delay; Israel Told to Quit Gaza
British and French Bow to UN Orders, Leave Canal Issue Undecided Despite Attack
Associated Press, London
Transcribed from the clipping
“London, Dec. 3 (AP)—Britain and France bowed today to the will of the United Nations and agreed to pull their troops out of the Suez Canal Zone without delay. Further, the British told Israel it should get out of the captured Gaza Strip as well as Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and permit the strip to be made a responsibility of the UN.
In New York, UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold expressed hope the British and French forces will be out and the emergency UN police force will have taken command in Port Said by mid-December. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd notified the House of Commons that Gen.
Sir Charles Keightley, commander of the British-French invasion forces, has been instructed to meet with UN officials to work out a timetable for the withdrawal.
‘Given good faith on all sides, it can be carried out in a short time,’ Lloyd said… Lloyd’s announcement made clear that the invasion failed to achieve what many members of Britain’s ruling Conservative party had considered a prime objective: To restore the Suez Canal to international control.”
Context added by this archive
The word in the paper’s own headline is invaders, and it means Britain and France. Israel is told to quit Gaza in the same line. Printed above a man killed on an icy road in Huntington and a man shot on a deer hunt in Barre.
Cite this clipping
"Stalled Invaders Agree To Leave Without Delay; Israel Told to Quit Gaza," The Republican, 3 December 1956, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1956-016. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1956-016
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