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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.
SUBJECTS: Israel