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...Nasser. "The time has come to re-evaluate and reassess our foreign policy," wrote Frank Moraes, biographer of Nehru and editor of the influential Indian Express newspaper chain. He referred to the danger to India from Communist China, which talks of "liberating Asia," and Communist influences on exuberant Arab nationalism. Enlarging on the dangers to India of Communist infiltration of "the huge Pan-Arab Islamic land mass," Moraes asked: "Is it in India's interest to permit the penetration of any one foreign power here, or indeed of one pervading internal influence, which would bring the Arab world from...
...They tore off the tarpaulin and started pulling people into the street. One of my colleagues, Ibrahim Hashim, the Arab Union's Deputy Premier, who was sitting beside me, died from a stone hit in the head. Everyone who was pulled down was cut to bits. I saw a young German or Swiss of about 30 grabbed by the head and pulled down by the mob. About eight people started slashing and stabbing him and beating him with rods. Then they cut off his head. I did not see the death of the American, Burns, but later...
Iran. The stoutly pro-Western Shah, worried by regicide in neighboring Iraq, called members of Parliament to his palace and talked to them of the "bonds linking him with his people." One advantage the Shah has over the Hashemites of the Middle East: his people are Moslem but not Arab, and are thus beyond the limits of Nasser's current ambitions. The Shah's chief internal worry is the presence of 1,000,000 Kurds. This ancient group (whose great ancestor was Saladin) spread across northern Iran, northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, as well as the Soviet Caucasus. Russians...
West Germany. For days Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government kept silent while Socialists scored the Anglo-American troop landings. Germans, with their own strong trade ties and commercial ambitions in the Arab Middle East, did not mind letting it be known that they were not involved. Adenauer, miffed at not being told in advance, was mollified when John Foster Dulles made a special trip to see him en route to a Baghdad Pact meeting...
...dealings with Tunisia's hard-pressed Premier Habib Bourguiba. De Gaulle's predecessors, by refusing to withdraw French troops from southern Tunisia, by meekly backing the French military's unauthorized bombing of the Tunisian village of Sakiet, were slowly driving away the man in Arab North Africa who had shown himself most friendly and understanding toward the West, and most resistant to Nasser. French ineptness was also pushing Bourguiba into deeper alliance with Algeria's extremist rebels...