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Article: FOCUS- TWO SIDES OF THE CRISIS: `You tried everything to make us fail' Christy Campbell reports from Port Said
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- October 27, 1996
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THEY make a bonfire of a British prime minister in this Egyptian
port-city, Mediterranean gateway to the Suez Canal - burned in
effigy each November 5. He wears a Homburg, a black coat, a devil's
face and a straggly moustache. The people speak his name, Eden,
with a tongue-poking, Arabic hiss.
Sir Anthony Eden was a "big villain", they tell you. The
generation of Egyptian officers who fought the war of the "Triple
Aggression", as they call the Suez crisis here, have grown more
understanding almost 40 years to the day when the British came to
reclaim the canal for the empire. Eden was not mad, he was just "a
very big fool".
"You know what he did?" said Colonel Amin Hewedy, 75, who was
chief ...