by James Hickman
Schiff Sovereign
Don Edgar considered himself extremely lucky.
It was early in the morning on November 6, 1956, and the World War II veteran turned journalist for Britain’s Daily Express was one of just two reporters invited to witness Britain’s invasion of Egypt.
Standing on the bridge of a British warship, Edgar wrote that it was “the most impressive military operation the British had put on for many a year, with parachutists, marine commandos, tanks, aircraft, and a naval bombardment.”
Naturally he would say so. Edgar was British.
The rest of the world, however, was not terribly impressed. And the United Nations– along with the US, Canada, Australia, and more, raced to condemn Great Britain for its aggression.