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...Anglo-Egyptian meeting to negotiate the evacuation of Britain's $1.5 billion Suez Canal base was drawing desultorily to a close last week when Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's most powerful man behind Reluctant Dictator Na guib, rose to his full 6 ft. and snapped: "Gentlemen, let us not waste our time." With that, the British delegates crammed papers into portfolios and stalked out; the talks, which had been going on for ten days, were broken off. Egypt vowed it would not move an inch from these points...
...Anglo-Egyptian relations swirled into this violent state, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew into the storm center at Cairo (see below). At the airport he read a prepared statement acclaiming Naguib as "one of the outstanding free-world leaders," and added: "Perhaps my visit here will help clear up some misunderstandings...
...religious group, but to their country. Why, it is as silly to refer to Paul Robeson as a "traitor to the good name of the American Negro" as it would be to refer to Frederick Vanderbilt Field or Corliss Lament as "traitors to the good name of the American Anglo-Saxon...
Since she had previously stated that there had been no other applicants for the position, this sounded rather peculiar to me. On the basis of this unpleasant suspicion, and because our name is distinctly Jewish, I asked my husband to call the same number using an "Anglo-Saxon" name. He did so and was immediately connected with the man who had placed the ad, who told him that the job was open and gave an enthusiastic account of its advantages. To be absolutely certain, I then called again under a non-Jewish name and was given the same cordial treatment...
Molotov's wartime role was to win friends for the Soviet Union. He did it well. As "Mr. Smith," he flew to London to sign a 20-year treaty of alliance that is still, theoretically, the basis of Anglo-Soviet relations. Winston Churchill put him up in his country home at Chequers, and wrote afterwards: "Molotov's room [was] thoroughly searched by his police officers . . . The mattresses were all prodded in case of infernal machines. At night a revolver was laid out beside his dressing gown and his dispatch case...