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...Indian Parliament, Nehru called on both sides to adopt a ceasefire. After that, he suggested, the French government should recognize "the national entity and personality of Algeria ... on the basis of freedom," and enter into direct negotiations with the rebels. Since Nehru has considerable influence in the Arab-Asian bloc, Frenchmen noted gratefully that he had refrained from backing the rebels' demand for "independence," and had further urged "recognition that Algeria is the homeland of all the people in Algeria, irrespective of race," i.e., of one million Frenchmen as well as eight million Moslems. Nehru's proposal...
...French colons, whose better land yields nearly half the total crop,*employ more than a million miserably paid Arab hands, many of whom, out of conviction or fear or desperation, collaborate with the rebels. The European farmers can trust no one. Many are discouraged and some are leaving. Good farms can be bought for almost nothing...
...down from an airliner at Lydda airport for a ten-day tour of Israel. Just in case things got too hot for Izzat, the Israelis gave him an armed guard and a false name. As George Ibrahim Habib, a "South American journalist," he saw lots of communal settlements, some Arab villages, no military installations. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett chitted with him in Arabic, and David Ben-Gurion's secretary handed him a message for Egypt's Nasser that Israel's Premier was ready to meet him and talk peace any time, anywhere. By the time he left...
...fired off a cable to Communist China's Chou Enlai, whose government had just put on a big trade fair in Cairo and was buying $28 million worth of Egypt's surplus cotton. Two days later, in an action likely to be followed by several other Arab-bloc countries, and likely to speed a showdown on Red China's bid for membership in the U.N. Assembly, Nasser's government extended diplomatic recognition to Peking. U.S. Ambassador Henry Byroade first learned what Nasser was up to when Nationalist China's ambassador, the dean of Cairo...
...Middle East, his scheme for a Northern tier alliance helped precipitate the latest Arab-Israel crisis and has provided an ineffective wall from Pakistan to Turkey which the Soviets seem to have taken some pleasure in jumping over...