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Above all there remained Algeria. De Gaulle's high-flown rhetoric about Algeria had at one and the same time encouraged both the right-wing French "ultras" in Algeria and Arab leaders like Tunisian Pre mier Habib Bourguiba. Now it would have to be translated into plans and actions. De Gaulle's promised trip to Algeria would probably do more to reassure the 500,000 French troops there, who in De Gaulle's words had been "scandalized by the absence of true authority," than it would please the ultras, who may find his proposed solution for Algeria...
Secretary Dulles publicly supported Chamoun by saying that the Lebanese regime had "what seems to us to be serious evidence" of Nasserite interference in its affairs; but the State Department privately hoped that the Lebanese government would not press its complaint before the U.N. asking investigation of United Arab Republic subversion. Cairo, Moscow and half the Middle East press were crying "American intervention." Two of Chamoun's Moslem ministers resigned in protest at what they called a "betraying" appeal to outsiders against a fellow Arab state...
Forty years ago a young Arab officer rode triumphantly up the old Hejaz railway beside Prince Feisal and Lawrence of Arabia toward the ancient desert capital of Amman. Last week, still pursuing his old dream of an Arab nation filling the Fertile Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, General Nuri asSaid, 70, returned to Amman to put into being a new union, the Arab Federation, joining the kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan...
...Federation's 8,000,000 citizens. Though he did not say so, the mistake Nuri Pasha meant most to avoid was precipitating a showdown any sooner than necessary in the inevitable struggle for Middle East supremacy between the new Federation and Nasser's dynamic United Arab Republic, which has four times as many citizens but no oil wealth...
...Archbishop Makarios, exiled ethnarch of Cyprus. To have omitted Makarios, argued Dr. Fisher, "would inevitably have been interpreted not as an ecclesiastical but as a political action." Makarios said he would try to make it to England, but planned first to visit President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic...