TWO BOOKS ON THE SUEZ AFFAIR from 4lex Achéson
Cyril Ray recently reviewed Ben Gurion's “Israel, Years of Challenge" in Punch ~- "He has written a turgid tract, no more, which contrives to devote three chapters to the Sinai campaign without a single freference to Anthony Eden, and reveals nothing, save for a give-away phrase about 'the first indication of Anglo-French intervention against Egypt, received on the night of October 30th.' So Mr. Ben Gurion knew that the "intervention" was against (my emphasis) Egypt before Egypt had even replied,
Reviewing D.M.J. Clark's "Suez Touchdown", Ray writes - "Captain ™ Clark's briefing from his C.0. before the landing at Port Seid was to the effect that ‘thé’ British and French have decided to reteke the Suez Canal" No nonsense about “separating the combatants! in this book by a man vulgar enough to refer always to the 'wogs',"