The smell of an election year was in the air, and in the House of Commons frisky politicians responded to the scent. Debates became more edged, remarks more personal. In a week of such infighting, the Labor Opposition had a bad time of it.
Back Talk. First, Labor's Hugh Gaitskell tried to turn Britain's recent financial settlement with Nasser into a formal censure of the 1956 Suez invasion, which he described as a "disastrous act of folly almost without parallel in our history." Nor was ailing Tory Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden alone to blame, he went on: "There were...
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