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...Suez Canal, by reason of its internationalized character, both in law and in fact, is the last place wherein to seek the means of gaining national triumphs." He made passing reference to Nasser's much quoted Philosophy of the Revolution (see box) and its implicit threat of an Arab withholding of oil, "the sinew of material civilization without which machines would cease to function." To guard against such threats, Dulles proposed an international board to run the canal...
With skill, Dictator Nasser last week sought to display a double image: an Egypt under calm discipline, an Arab world up in arms. The Arab League's political committee, ever ready to accent the negative, met in Cairo and strongly endorsed Nasser's seizure of the Suez. On the day the London conference began, all Egypt stopped work for 24 hours, and stopped talking for five minutes, in protest. About the only operation in the country unaffected by the strike was the daily passage of ships through the canal, which the government's control agency ordered...
...even Israel's) saluted him as a genuine, responsible leader at last in the Middle East, a young man whose forceful vision might yet bring tranquillity where there was chaos. Today, having seized control of the world's most important waterway, he is defiantly whipping up Arab hatred to drive the Western powers from the Middle East. Said one Western expert: "We thought we were dealing with a kitten. In fact it was a leopard...
...dominated state of Tunisia this week abolished plural marriage (up to four wives at any one time) sanctioned for Moslems by the Koran and by the example of Prophet Mohammed. "These measures have been taken to better protect the home, the base of society," announced Premier Habib Bourguiba, an Arab who has but one wife, a Frenchwoman. He added that girls would no longer be permitted to become child-brides at 14 or less, that youths and girls over 20 need no longer get parental consent to marry, that male Tunisians must give up the right to divorce wives...
West Germany, which agreed to attend the London conference, did so out of unwillingness to offend Britain, France and the U.S. The West Germans would much rather stay home. They have business interests of their own to develop in the Arab Middle East and do not want to incur Arab hostility. In such an event they fear that Nasser's revenge might be to recognize Communist East Germany, which would compel Chancellor Adenauer to make good on his threat to break off relations with any nation that recognizes the East German government...