The Suez crisis, already drifted away from the bluster of war talk, floated at last into the slow-grinding mills of negotiation. Nine weeks after Egypt's seizure of the canal, the parties to the dispute were still hostile, still unyielding. But they came together in the United Nations Security Council for the first face-to-face attempt to whittle down their differences. Said Britain's Selwyn Lloyd: "I consider this a test of the ability of the U.N. to achieve justice and uphold international law without recourse to violence."
It was perhaps unfair to stake the U.N.'s reputation on its ability to settle a...
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