A Hell of a Spot
Andrew Bacevich: Eisenhower and Suez, 16 June 2011
Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis: Suez and the Brink of War
by David Nichols.
Simon and Schuster, 346 pp., £21, March 2011,978 1 4391 3933 2 Show More
by David Nichols.
Simon and Schuster, 346 pp., £21, March 2011,
“... another law for the strong; one law for those opposing us, another for those allied with us’ – noble sentiments that had not stayed Eisenhower’s hand when dealing with matters in Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam and elsewhere. With the Kremlin blustering about rocket attacks – ‘the Arabs will not stand alone,’ Khrushchev vowed – the world seemed to be ... ”