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SAUDI ARABIA'S brown-robed King Saud, on his way home from Washington, will soon meet in Cairo with Egypt's President Nasser. In the four weeks since Saud and Nasser last met, there has been a perceptible shift of opinion in the Arab world. Though the Eisenhower Doctrine has given all Arab nations evidence of U.S. readiness to protect them, Arab leaders are trending away from Nasser on their own initiative. Beirut's Nahar quoted Saud as saying: "I am convinced that the future of the Arab world must be founded on its friendship with America...
...hoping to build up the reasonable, oil-bearing Arab elements as a decisive factor for anti-Communist stability in the Middle East, found itself in a cruel predicament last week. The one way to promote reasonableness among Arabs is to keep them from getting worked up about Israel, and to that end it was necessary to get the Israelis to clear out of Egypt and stop defying the U.N. As an inducement to the Israelis to cooperate, John Foster Dulles made them what seemed a good offer. As soon as Israel pulled back its troops, he told Ambassador Abba Eban...
Predictably, a Nasser spokesman in Cairo denounced the Dulles proposals as "obvious favoritism for Israel" and "a way to give Israel a political victory as a result of armed attack." But while waiting for Israel's answer, the Asian-Arab bloc at the U.N. withheld their resolution to impose sanctions against Israel...
Counter-Pressure. Any more concessions to Israel at this point would estrange the moderate Arab opinion that the new U.S. Middle East policy is trying to foster. Nasser was already systematically slowing down the work of clearing the Suez Canal. Last week, after U.N. salvage vessels finally raised and towed the cement-filled hulk Akka out of the main channel, the Egyptians continued to dawdle about removing explosives from the wrecked tug Edgar Bonnet, and thus effectively kept the ditch plugged. The U.S., however, was concerned less about Nasser's blackmail than about other Arab opinion...
...prestige of the ruler of Islam's heartland and of the world's richest oil lands, reinforced by a resplendent reception in Washington. After regal stops in Spain and North Africa, he wall head toward Nasser's Cairo. There the two leaders of the Arab world will meet-with their allies President Kuwatly of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan-to hear of Saud's magic-carpet travels...