“I have no doubt myself that the reason why Colonel Nasser acted in the way that he did, aggressively, brusquely, suddenly, was precisely because he wanted to raise his prestige in the rest of the Middle East. … He wanted to challenge the West and to win. He wanted to assert his strength. He wanted to make a big impression. Quiet negotiation, discussion around a table about nationalising the Company would not produce this effect. It is all very familiar. It is exactly the same that we encountered from Mussolini and Hitler in those years before the war.”

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1956/aug/02/suez-canal#column_1613 in the House of Commons (2 August 1956) after Egypt nationalised the Suez Canal
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