 There appeared to be a real danger that Ceylon , India and , particularly , Pakistan might leave the Commonwealth . Home was firm in his support of the invasion , but used his contacts with Jawaharlal Nehru , V. K. Krishna Menon , Nan Pandit and others to try to prevent the Commonwealth from breaking up . His relationship with Eden was supportive and relaxed ; he felt able , as others did not , to warn Eden of unease about Suez both internationally and among some members of the cabinet . Eden dismissed the latter as the " weak sisters " ; the most prominent was Butler , whose perceived hesitancy over Suez on top of his support for appeasement of Hitler damaged his standing within the Conservative party . When the invasion was abandoned under pressure from the US in November 1956 , Home worked with the dissenting members of the Commonwealth to build the organisation into what Hurd calls " a modern multiracial Commonwealth " . 
