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...that imperialist Moscow is back at playing a divide-and-rule game among the Arabs. Only six months ago, Khrushchev had told Nasser in Moscow: "You will have all necessary help from us" in uniting the Arab people. But despite their recent promise to lend money for the Aswan Dam, the Reds are tying more and more knots in their tight economic strings on Cairo. And the Communist Party is emerging in Syria and Iraq as the violent foe of further Arab unity under Nasser. The Communists know that Nasser suppresses the party in Egypt, and that he took over...
...River Dam, rebuilt by the colonel after he found it crumbling 30 years ago, and Pottawatomie Park, on which Baker and the Public Works Administration matched funds to provide tennis courts, two swimming pools and a golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones...
...joint East-West program for economic assistance. "We will help them ourselves." At a Kremlin reception two days later, Premier Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to advance the U.A.R. 400 million rubles ($40 million at the tourist rate) to help Nasser build the Aswan High Dam...
This, as every listener to Cairo's Voice of the Arabs knows, is the same high dam that the U.S. proposed, then refused to underwrite before Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. The news went over big in the Middle East. A pro-Western Beirut newspaper cried approvingly: "The Soviet Union has taken the place of the West on the banks of the Nile to help Nasser at long last to build the Pyramid of the 20th century...
...Nasser sets out to build his $1.3 billion, three-mile dam, the Soviet credit-on easy long-term loan-will be but a drop in the bucket. Perhaps Khrushchev's cracks at joint East-West aid were an attempt to head off any Nasser move now to get Western help in making the dam a reality. But Khrushchev's bold gesture stirred Arab gratitude, and Nasser had his own domestic reasons for making it sound bigger and better than it actually...