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After the Cabinet, Eden told the French Prime Minister that they must get a cease-fire. Mollet argued for two more days to seize the rest of the canal, but Eden said that Britain could not withstand American pressure on the pound.
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© 1996 Sir Robin Renwick
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Renwick, R. (1996). ‘We can furnish a lot of fig leaves’. In: Fighting with Allies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379824_25
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