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...home of the Washington Post and Times Herald's Chalmers Roberts. There he confidentially criticized Dulles, explained that if Britain had not consulted the U.S. about the invasion of Egypt, Dulles had not consulted Britain on canceling the offer to build Egypt's Aswan High Dam. (The facts: Britain got one day's advance warning that the U.S. was considering cancellation; in any event, Britain had long been urging the U.S. to get tough with Nasser.) And in London last week nobody was more surprised than New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Don Cook when the Foreign Office...
...divided over whether he was capable of honest feeling about suffering anywhere, or just trying to save his own hide in the Communist wreckage. The Netherlands. Even children's TV shows were interrupted to urge prayers for the Hungarians. Some 30,000 Amster-dammers gathered one night in Dam Square to cheer denunciation of Russia. In Belgium, 5,000 university students stormed the Russian embassy in Brussels. Great Britain. Crowds marched in London streets wearing armbands of mourning. The Sadler's Wells Ballet Company called off its scheduled trip to Moscow. "Gabriel," chief political cartoonist of the London...
...made by the Democrats. Montana's 38-year-old Republican Congressman Orvin B. Fjare lost the Second District to State Senator LeRoy Anderson in a campaign that centered around Fjare's opposition to paying the Crow Indians $5,000,000 for the proposed site of the Yellowtail Dam on the Big Horn River...
...Russians had just vetoed the latest effort to force a solution on Egypt. Both British and French were increasingly annoyed at U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. In their view, Dulles had precipitated Nasser's anger by his abrupt decision to end the Aswan dam deal. Furthermore, when Nasser countered by seizing the canal company, Dulles had talked the British and French out of strong measures, and then, as they saw it, reneged on his implied promise to pay for an economic boycott of the canal?leaving Nasser triumphant and unpunished...
...East against West to his own advantage; and most important of all--the United States, through its Secretary of State, for conceiving that first tragic step, the Baghdad Pact, which gave the Soviets provocation to send Nasser the arms that unbalanced the Middle East, and for withdrawing the Aswan Dam offer in an insulting manner which provoked drastic Egyptian action. And most tragic, this whole chain of events--beginning with Dulles and ending with Eden--has divided the West and preoccupied world opinion while the Soviets wiped out the new Hungarian government...