A debate was organized in my school one lunch-time by Jack Smith, a physics teacher, and Brian Stokes, a chemistry teacher. They were outraged by the invasion. I attended the meeting, which was very crowded. I had in fact read one or two of the newspapers reporting the line of the Eden government, that their intervention was honourably motivated, being aimed at preventing a war breaking out between Israel and Egypt. Though sixteen years old, I was still naïve enough to believe this claim, or at least not to dismiss it out of hand for the lie which, manifestly, it was.
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