摘要：MERICAN veterans of nato Service in the . Fifties may reeall an incident of the Suez crisis. Our principal allies, Great Britain and France. had just made a secretly planned and, as it turned out, a ver>' ill-advised attack on Egypt. General Alfred Gruenther, one of the great comrnanders of nato forces, called a hurried meeting of Americans who were in his headquarters. After shaking his head sadly, he gave this advice: “Try to understand why they did it. We have to understand. We are still their allies and they are ours.”.
