Everyone is Ready for War

Anthony Eden sat quietly at the head of the table in Whitehall's secure war room.

The map of the Suez Canal spread before him was clear but it's implications made everyone silent.

It was easy clamoring for war before but just when you are about to enter war, rethinking of decisions begin.

Around him, Britain's most senior officials military chiefs, diplomats, and ministers sat in tense silence, waiting for him to speak.

The room and everyone sitting in it felt huge suffocation of a decision on the brink of execution.

Eden finally leaned forward, his hands gripping the table's edge.