Effects of US Neutrality in the Suez Crisis

POD: In early September 1956, Panamanian Students take encouragement from Nasser's Nationalization of the Suez Canal and call for similiar actions by the Panamanian Government. While it doesn't rise to the same level as the OTL January 1964 riots, it is a concern to the Eisenhower Administration. On September 25, 1956 Eisenhower asks to speak to the British and French Ambassadors. He indicates that if the British and French governments are willing to privately agree that in the event of a Panamanian attempt to nationalize the Panama Canal that the UK and France will remain Neutral that the US will do the same in regards to the Suez.

Ideas on where this goes? I presume that Nasser falls. How long does it take the British to clear the canal and can the Suez be defended against Egyptian rebel efforts to block the Canal by sinking a ship whenever they want?
 

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He indicates that if the British and French governments are willing to privately agree that in the event of a Panamanian attempt to nationalize the Panama Canal that the UK and France will remain Neutral...
One immediate snag here is even the possibility of the United States Government consulting the British and French concerning events in the Western Hemisphere. The US government operated in the belief that the Monroe Doctrine was the legitimate basis for US action throughout Latin American. Eisenhower would have seen nothing at all wrong with moving against Panama and still condemning the British and French action.
 
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