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Though tanks still peered through the shrubbery in downtown Damascus, Syria was calm. After Gamal Abdel Nasser had resigned himself to Syria's breakaway from the United Arab Republic ("May Allah help beloved Syria"), the world's nations hastened to welcome the newly independent state. In a blaze of flashbulbs and official smiles, U.S. Consul General Ridgway B. Knight drove up to the rose-walled Foreign Office in Damascus last week and presented a note extending formal recognition. Three days earlier, the new regime, coolly and without publicity, accepted Soviet recognition. Said one longtime Western observer: "This...
Nasser, who knows well that this is the surest way to discredit Syria in the Arab world, assiduously painted the new regime as a "reactionary" front for British interests. In Syria itself, the powerful socialist Baath Party charged that the government ''represents vested interests trying to stuff their own pockets." The government was determined to put Syria's plundered economy on an even keel and slow Nasser's precipitate nationalization program. But able, French-trained Economics Minister Awad Barakat said he would press forward with land redistribution, ''with certain modifications," and retain intact "social...
Ogden R. Reid, U.S. Ambassador to Israel under President Eisenhower, told a Ford Hall Forum audience "We cannot worry solely about Berlin and Southeast Asia while neglecting the Israeli-Arab conflict. The outcome could be decisive to the free world," he said, "and Russia is not wholly inactive in the area...
...reduction in U.N. troops in the Middle East might well bring chaos," cautioned Reid, former editor and publisher of the New York Herald-Tribune. "And Arab refugees should no longer be treated as political pawns...
Less Than Reverence. For Nasser, as the Middle East's most fervent apostle of Arab unity, the revolt was a crushing blow. Not only was the U.A.R. in ruins, and with it Nasser's grandiose dreams of a superstate encompassing the whole Arab world. Nasser's myth would also be badly bruised in the eyes of millions who idolized him as a crusader against colonialism. By its impassioned rejection of Egyptian "tyranny," the revolution could only deepen the suspicion that under the guise of pan-Arabism Nasser pursues a Pharaonic imperialism. After Nasser's fulminations against...