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...Egypt it was "Hate-Iran Week." Fortnight ago, President Gamal Abdel Nasser summoned home his ambassador in Teheran, and Iran's ambassador in Cairo was ordered to leave Egypt with hardly time to change from pajamas to street clothes. To speed the harried ambassador on his way, an Egyptian court attached the Iranian embassy's furniture as security for a tradesman's bill...
...pleasant to be expropriated instead of the supporter of expropriation is it? I wrote to you two years ago telling you that the U.S. would regret the betrayal of its allies at the time of Suez. Now you know how the British and French felt when Nasser with the support of the U.S. stole the Suez Canal. The price America is now paying is only part of that she will suffer for setting the precedent for international brigandage...
...Cuban sugar in return for machinery, consumer items and technicians. Russia, already the world's biggest sugar producer, is a net exporter of sugar; at best, the Cubans could expect to market one-sixth of their next year's crop to the Soviets. They may find, as Nasser did when he bartered cotton to Russia, that the Communists will dump it elsewhere, depriving them of other markets...
...Egypt, the supposedly classic case of the possibilities of the Soviet economic offensive, has outlawed her Communists, has found President Nasser making sharply anti-Communist speeches...
...heroes. Even onetime Democrats were claiming they had been taken in by deposed Premier Adnan Menderes and hailing General Cemal Gursel's 38-member Committee of National Unity as Turkey's saviors. But abroad fears grew that Turkey's military rulers might be planning a permanent Nasser-or Kassem-type dictatorship rather than turn the country back to civilian rule...