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...Near North. Internationally, too, Australia speaks these days with its own distinctive voice. Menzies is British in heart, soul and mind, and in the Suez crisis, after failing to persuade Nasser to accept international control of the canal, Menzies lined Australia behind Sir Anthony Eden's invasion. He did so against the will of former Australian Foreign Minister Richard Casey,-and only New Zealand in the rest of the Commonwealth sided with Britain...
Panama's Foreign Minister Miguel Moreno stood on the banks of Egypt's Suez Canal one day last week and gazed with admiration so undisguised that it was almost a declaration of policy. Later, before a formal call on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Moreno put his thoughts into words: "The ties between Panama and the United Arab Republic are ancient. You have the Suez Canal, and we have the Panama Canal.'' In Panama City, visitors to the Cuban embassy could pick up a copy of the slick magazine, INRA, and read the same thought...
Loaded Cocktails. Leading the campaign on the spot is the United Arab Republic's Minister Mohamed El Tabei, 44. a round-shouldered little man with darting eyes. An army judge advocate who hitched himself to Nasser's star, Tabei turned up a year ago to open the U.A.R.'s first fulltime diplomatic outpost in Panama. Despite the fact that commercial relations between the U.A.R. and Panama are so minuscule that they are not even listed in world trade reports, he brought three staffers from Cairo, hired a dozen more Panamanians once he arrived...
Tabei has not been idle. Each month the legation mails out a fat, Spanish-language bulletin full of success stories about Nasser's operation of Suez, regularly lends a documentary film on the glories of the new Egypt. Tabei recently donated a shelf of Egyptian books to the University of Panama, has also announced four scholarships for Panamanians to study in Cairo. Most important, Tabei has turned into the diplomatic set's host with the most, glorifying Egypt's canal-nationalizing over endless cocktails and dinners. A favorite guest: Aquilino Boyd, who as foreign minister...
Although the U.A.R. legation and the Cuban embassy are in the same block on the same street, Tabei and Cabrera are never seen talking privately, give no evidence that they coordinate a common campaign to stir up Panama's anti-U.S. nationalists. But last week Nasser's Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Zulficar Sabri was a guest of honor in Fidel Castro's Cuba. A sure topic for talk: Panama and the U.S. Canal Zone...