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When, early in the week, Saudi Arabia's King Saud offered to mediate the Turkish-Syrian quarrel, Syria's ailing President Shukri el Kuwatly grabbed at the offer. "We accept your effort with all satisfaction," he said. In the U.N. the other Arab nations, anxious to forestall further Russian meddling in the Middle East, privately urged the Syrians to accept Saud's good offices. (The sole exception: Egypt, whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser regards Saud as a dangerous rival for leadership of the Arab world.) Then the word from Moscow-"An effort to evade U.N. debate...
...Russia all but dropped its pious pretense that its only concern is Arab welfare. Said Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko coldly: "Our attitude ... is prescribed by the interests of the Soviet Union's security." In a series of private conversations, clearly designed to terrify Arab and Asian delegates, Gromyko conveyed the impression that Russia was prepared to intervene militarily even if the present Syrian regime were overthrown by internal revolt...
...Minister Andrei Gromyko had flexed their new rocket muscles in promising to retaliate against Turkey (see FOREIGN NEWS). The U.S. fear was not so much that Russia would risk all-out war by Middle Eastern aggression, as such, but rather that it would dangerously spread its influence in the Arab world by appearing as the noisy champion of Arab Syria. The Eisenhower-Macmillan talks would dwell less on the intramural problems of the Middle East than on methods of keeping the Russian influence...
Certainly President Kuwatly and the military leaders who put him in power have no interest in letting Syria become a base for either Russian or American operations. The anti-colonialism in the Middle East expressed itself not in Communism, but in an assertion of Arab unity. It would be a major blunder if the United States appeared to be the enemy of this unity and allowed Russia to become its protector...
...government of nations and a more realistic concept of Western interests, can serve its own cause far better than by making "right conduct" the only standard of foreign policy. In Syria, particularly, a revision of our viewpoint can prevent Russia from gaining a sphere of influence in the Arab world...