Word: mideast
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...beckon. Therefore, said Ike, spelling out the way U.S. collective-security planning had helped in Western Europe, Greece, Turkey and the Far East, "it is now essential that the U.S. should manifest through joint action of the President and the Congress our determination to assist those nations of the Mideast area which may desire that assistance." That was why he had come before them to request stand-by congressional authority...
...stoking up a colonialism of its own (see below), the President four times reiterated that U.S. aid is available only to those who voluntarily and freely request it, and announced that he will "promptly" send a special mission to the Middle East to explain the new doctrine to the Mideast leaders...
...cause of the strife, and not Communism," said one Egyptian, indicating the booby traps of outlook that lay ahead for the new U.S. policy. "Communism is outlawed in Egypt." From India, Jawaharlal Nehru chimed in with the comment that the U.S. attempt to send military aid to the Mideast "will lead to trouble." Other critics in Britain and the U.S. added that the new doctrine meant nothing without specific policies for solving the internal problems of the Middle East, e.g., the status of the Suez Canal, Israel v. the Arabs-which the U.S. intends to work for through...
...Cold-shouldered Israeli attempts to commit the U.S., in advance of Tel Aviv's full compliance with U.N. resolutions, to support her demands that in any Mideast settlement Israel be guaranteed free passage through the Suez, protection from further Egyptian commando raids, etc. The State Department, determined that Israel not be rewarded for her attack on Egypt, told the Israeli Foreign Ministry in effect: first things first, i.e., no U.S. commitments until Israel withdraws behind the 1949 armistice lines. On the other side of the ledger, the U.S. Treasury gave no sign of heeding fervent Egyptian requests that...
...MIDEAST OIL expansion plans are being delayed by Western companies, worried that continued unrest will hurt their investments. Arabian American Oil Co. is cutting $10 million from its projected $80 million fund for construction and expansion this year, and other firms may follow suit. Because of Suez Canal closure and Saudi Arabian ban on exports to Britain and France, Aramco's daily flow is down to less than 700,000 bbls. v. more than 1,000,000 bbls. one year...