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Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, no friend of Communism, has nevertheless used his considerable prestige to keep the Middle East state uncommitted. In the quarrelsome and weak Arab League, neutralism is not hard to sell since it is negative: the Arab states are united chiefly by a common antipathy to Israel and a general indifference to the Cold War. But last month, meeting in Cairo, three Arab League members (Iraq, Syria and Lebanon) openly rebelled against Nasser's neutralism. They pointed to his own deal with London, whereby the British agreed to get out of Suez...
...Baghdad, Premiers Adnan Menderes of Turkey and Nuri es-Said of Iraq jointly announced last week their decision to sign a mutual defense pact. Washington and London were pleased: the joining of oil-rich Iraq to NATO member Turkey is the first major break in the log jam of Arab neutrality. But in Cairo, the news caused consternation...
...week's end Gamal Abdel Nasser was in a spot. If he reversed himself and approved Iraq's move, he risked trouble with his own mercurial and frequently xenophobic people. If he disapproved, but could not stop the falling away of other Arab states, Egypt might find itself no longer the leader in the Arab Middle East. Fretted Nasser: "Sometimes politicians are not patient enough. This action has come too soon. Now it will be complicated...
...also "for the time being," an Arab-Asian proposal to encourage the independence movement in French Tunisia. Sponsors of the postponement: the Arab-Asian nations...
...Arab diplomats went so far as to admit that Mendès-France's reform efforts in North Africa are more promising than intemperate resolutions...