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...declaration was neither a signed document nor a diplomatic ultimatum. But it was clear enough. It came when Nasser stepped onto his Damascus balcony, looked grandly out on the sea of cheering Arabs who have surrounded the guesthouse every day all day since he arrived two weeks ago, and charged that Saudi Arabia's King had plotted to overthrow the new United Arab Republic...
...difficult to produce documents, but this time we have them." As Syria's Intelligence Chief Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj hovered at his side, Nasser dramatically yanked a canceled check from a Manila envelope and shouted: "The first million was paid by Check No. 85902, drawn on the Arab Bank in Riyadh Feb. 20, 1958, payable to bearer and cashed at the Arab Bank branch in Damascus." Bearer, roared Nasser, was Serraj, who, as conscientious as he was vigilant, had accepted the check, then hurried to tell Nasser all about it. "We decided to nationalize it," said Nasser...
Battle Lines. The plot's truth or fiction scarcely mattered. What was important was that Nasser had made the charge at all. In doing so, he had made an open break with Saud, giving up all hope of wooing him to his Arab Republic, heedless of the fact that this must drive Saud toward the Hashemite federation of Iraq and Jordan. Plainly, Nasser was pinning his hopes of uniting the Arab world on an attempt to unseat its Kings-Iraq's Feisal, Jordan's Hussein, and now Saudi Arabia's Saud. It was a dangerous ploy...
Lost Confidence. Truth was that lingering Arab confidence in France was ebbing so rapidly in the wake of Sakiet that no leader could soothe his angry subjects with assurances of French good faith and be convincing. Last week Mohammed was acting like a man whose own patience had run out, whose own confidence in French good will was gone...
...Crown Prince el Badr arrived in Damascus to tell Nasser of Yemen's adherence to the republic. Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed will keep his throne and his absolute power, and the arrangement constituted little more than a close alliance. But the battle was joined for leadership of Arab unity...