Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
913
AUTHOR:
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969)
QUOTATION:
Should a nation which attacks and occupies foreign territory in the face of United Nations disapproval be allowed to impose conditions on its own withdrawal?
ATTRIBUTION:
President DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, radio and television broadcast on the situation in the Middle East, Washington, D.C., February 20, 1957.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957, p. 151.
Israel had invaded Egypt on October 29, 1956, precipitating the Suez Crisis.
