"I have never followed any man," said Ernest Bevin in the days of desperate wartime coalition. "But I will follow that man." He was speaking of Winston Churchill. Last week, in the days of postwar doubt and division, the friendship between the Conservative aristocrat and the Socialist commoner finally broke.
For five hours, Commons hotly debated Britain's proposed withdrawal from Egypt and the hitch in the Cairo negotiations. Churchill insisted that British troops stay in Egypt to protect the Suez Canal. Replied Bevin: "It is not a very popular thing now in international affairs to maintain troops on other people's soil....
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