Faced with a provocation, even an entirely legal one involving the nationalisation of a foreign-owned asset like the Suez canal, the instinct of such Europeans was to go to war.

• 面对挑衅，即使是一个完全合法的牵涉到他国拥有的资产的国有化行为，就象苏伊士运河国有化，有这种想法的欧洲国家的本能行动就会导致战争。