European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes april modern living today crossword linked 1956 Suez crisis with risk of nuclear War file photo lord and lady Mountbatten in associated press lord Louis the late Cousin of Queen Elizabeth feared while he was head of the Royal Navy during the 1956 Suez crisis that the British government risked starting a nuclear says a new the by Philip says that who was assassinated by the Irish re publican army in was desperately worried by plans by prime minister Anthony Edens government for a full scale invasion of Egypt and twice offered his resignation As first sea such action by a service chief in time of War would have been unprecedented and he was persuaded to Ziegler but the who draws on thousands of previously private documents in the Mountbatten indicates the extent of the late Earls referring to a letter by Mountbatten to Eden in August Ziegler writes in it he spoke of the risk of provoking a thermonuclear War and of Britain retrograde and absolutely indefensible step in flouting the principles on which the United nations had been the United nations was strongly urging Britain not to invade Egypt at the time Mountbatten wrote the letter and Ziegler says he never sent but As the crisis reached its and just four Days before the Anglo French assault Force was due to reach Mountbatten could no longer contain his anger at what he considered an abuse of the Navy and wrote another Ziegler says Mountbatten acknowledged that he was breaking with All service custom but told Eden i am writing to beg you to turn Back the assault Convoy before it is too As i feel that the actual Landing of troops can Only spread the War with untold misery and worldwide the Suez crisis began when the late president Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt nationalized the Suez Egypt at the time was backed by the soviet in a combined Israel then in Egypt and British and French troops occupied the canal the invading forces subsequently withdrew under american pressure and were replaced by a United nations emergency disagreement Over Britain role led to Edens the 700page biography makes Clear Mountbatten always believed dropping the first atom bombs in 1945 had been right in the interests of ending world War ii hostilities with but Ziegler says Mountbatten was later to Delight in shocking nato commanders by condemning tactical nuclear weapons and badgered every British prime minister from Harold Macmillan to Margaret Thatcher to make Progress on nuclear Mountbatten was a beloved Royal world War ii Allied commander in Southeast Asia and last Viceroy of overseeing its Independence from Britain in writing of the 1947 Punjab in which the Book says at least people Ziegler judges that Mountbatten failed to anticipate the huge numbers of refugees his partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan would but the author dismisses accusations that mount Batten could have minimized the carnage by implementing partition More writing of Mountbatten personal Ziegler says Mountbatten confided that he and his wife were con stantly unfaithful to each Edwina and i spent All our married lives getting into other Peoples Mountbatten is quoted As telling civil service chief sir Robert Ziegler writes that Mountbatten encouraged an intensely Loving relationship Between his wife and India first prime Jawaharlal he says that in confidential Mountbatten said his wife and Nehru were so Sweet together and that he always made it easy for them to see each the letters published in the Book indicate that lady who died in and who died in maintained a close romantic an Cheata ins bringing in by Eugene Sheffer across 1 Lolas worker 6 test Cor Rector 12 rum drink 13 feast 14 author Jane 15 practical 16jai 17 famed desert 19 Ariate 20 cons place 22 24 German cry 27 Knight and Kennedy 29 concept 32 pure and healthy 35 Pica or elite 36 Speed 37 actor Marvin 38 chop 40 speech problems 42 decay 44 la Dolce 46 angered 50 egg Case 52 i want 1958 film 54 solve cryptograms 55 secretive Bride 56 wiped clean 57 hinder Down 1 membrane 3 top Story 5 shakes Pearean tragedy 6 Chow 7 tree product 8 mature 9 colourful Flower 10 hebrew month 11 depend 12 calf cry 18 Mariner solution time 23 be Seffl diesel lob Lapi Ilia 46 to yesterdays 21 biblical verb ending Rosss successor 24 to the Stern 25 weep 26 delicate Flower 28 stuffed 30 language suffix 31 Captain 33 gender 34 Moines 39 Dodge 41 airline employee 42 hiked 43 finished 45 Tea Type 47 ready for eating 48 at any time 49 German article 51 Call for help 53 Call to the Toreador Hubert when we were married fax a that oust the