Guilty Men of Suez, by Frank Verity

[p034] Guilty Men of Suez by Frank Verity (Truth, 2s.) THIS STRANGE, almost psychopathic pamphlet, after a bout of private detection modelled on Sax Rohmer rather than Miss Dorothy Sayers, discovers, among many others, the main guilty men of Suez. First, naturally, Nasser—‘the tool of the Kremlin’. Second, Khrushchev who, among his many other crimes, called Israel the ‘tool of imperialists’. Third, John Foster Dulles whose ‘speciality was the sermon on colonialism. British, of course’. Fourth, Gaitskell, for changing those opinions he expressed in August 1956 on the need to ‘react sharply’ to Nasser’s nationalization of the canal.. Fifth, and all-important, Britain’s ‘Left-wing politicians’ and especially the arch-devil himself—Bevan. If this hysterical defence of Eden’s Suez adventure was merely the product of the lunatic fringe of British Right-wing 126 politics, Guilty Men of Suez would be intriguing only as light entertainment. Unfortunately it is becoming evident that this witch-doctor political-jungle lore is being taken up by a grow- ing number of Conservative MPs. There is, of course, no answer to Verity’s book—a logical answer would elevate it into the sphere of rationality where it finds no place. But the student of politics could profitably note the many new pathological symptoms of diehard Toryism which the book so clearly illustrates. J.D.