Nasser surrounded by jubliant masses in Port Said after British and French troops completed withdrawal fron the Canal Zone "If we had allowed things to drift ... Nasser would have become a kind of Muslim Mussolini, and our friends in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and even Iran would gradually have been brought down. His efforts would have spread westwards, and Libya and North Africa would have been brought under his control."
Anthony Eden

"Ben-Gurion himself [while in Sèvres] seemed to be in a rather aggressive mood, indicating or implying that the Israelis had no reason to believe in anything that a British minister might say."
Selwyn Lloyd

"Britain's foreign minister [Selwyn Lloyd] may well have been a friendly man, pleasant, charming, amiable. If so, he showed near-genius in concealing these virtues. His manner could not have been more antagonistic. His whole demeanour expressed distaste -- for the place [Sèvres], the company and the topic."
Moshe Dayan

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