and Asian Nationalism, 203– 204. The full- fl edged Israeli consulate in India
became operational only 1953.
- Menon also referred to an incident when the Lebanese ambassador to India
walked out of an offi cial Indian party in October 1964 because of the pres-
ence of an Indian professor who was a member of the Indo- Israel Cultural
Society. Brecher, India and World Politics, 79.
- Brecher, India and World Politics, 80.
- David Ben- Gurion’s statement of January 5, 1957, quoted in New Outlook
(Tel Aviv) 1, no. 3 (September 1957): 21. This was a radical change in Israel’s
stand. On the eve of the Suez crisis, Nehru received “an informal mes-
sage... from the Prime Minister of Israel to the eff ect that Israel had made
a mistake in leaning on the Western Powers and the Israelis now realized
more than ever that they were of Asia and must look to Asia.” Gopal, Jawa-
harlal Nehru, 2:277. Gopal did not identify the person, but perhaps he was
referring to Moshe Sharett, the former Israeli prime minister who had met
Nehru in New Delhi on October 30, 1956.
- Some of the best documentary works on the crisis include Eayrs, ed., The
Commonwealth and Suez; U.S. State Department, The Suez Canal Problem;
and India, Lok Sabha Secretariat, Suez Canal: Nationalization and After. On
the legal aspects, see Lapidoth, Freedom of Navigation with Special Reference
to International Waterways in the Middle East; Obeita, The International Sta-
tus of the Suez Canal; and, on India, see Mohan, “India, Pakistan, Suez, and
the Commonwealth.”
- For the complete text of Menon’s statement at the London Conference, see
U.S. State Department, The Suez Canal Problem, 159– 178.
- For Nehru’s statement in the parliament, Debates LS, series 1, vol. 7, part 2
(August 8, 1956), cols. 2536– 2544.
- Ibid.
- U.S. State Department, The Suez Canal Problem, 174– 175.
- For the full text, see http:// domino .un .org/ UNISPAL .NSF/ 181c4bf00c44e5fd
85256cef0073c426/ 38a514ea8dc0d345852560c20072ecb6.
8 2. Foreign Aff airs Record 2, no. 10 (October 1956): 150.
- Jawaharlal Nehru to Anthony Eden (November 1, 1956), cited in Gopal, Jawa-
harlal Nehru, 2:286.
8 4. The Hindu (November 2, 1956).
- For a detailed discussion, see Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru, 2:291– 299.
- Eden, Full Circle, 545; Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru, 2:291.
- Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru, 2:292.
8 8. Debates LS, series 1, vol. 9, part 2 (November 20, 1956), col. 592. For a simi-
lar statement, see Debates LS, series 2, vol. 3 (July 23, 1957), 4832.
- “My anger was the greater because the invasion [the Suez crisis] diverted at-
tention from Hungary and I felt that if the world’s attention could be concen-
trated on Hungary, the Soviet Union might decide not to crush the revolt.”
Reid, Envoy to Nehru, 150.
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