Word: nasser
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...Nasser's Size...
Your cover story on Nasser shows again that your evaluation of a man's policy and character doesn't rest on the integrity of this policy but on how harmful or helpful the man is to the West. Every so-called pro-Western government in this area has proved to be undesirable to the people. The fact is that the people are sick of being ruled by agents who care more about their own security and the interests of the American State Department than the welfare of their country. Nasser is nobody's tool...
...Besides, Nasser offers another form of membership in his club, not so binding as Syria's merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic, which has not worked well, as even Nasser admits. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and eventually Jordan might be persuaded to join a looser association called the United Arab States, which now links the U.A.R. with the feudal Imam of Yemen, a ruler whose primitivism makes the sheiks of Saudi Arabia appear enlightened democrats by comparison.* By joining the U.A.S., other Arab rulers might hope to keep some internal autonomy and some hold on their fabulous...
...Afro-Asian friends-especially Ghana and Burma-made their disapproval clear. Two left-wing parties in Ben-Gurion's coalition were strongly against letting Israel appear too committed to the West. Furthermore, Israel has tried to avoid backing one faction or another among Arab powers, whether Hussein or Nasser, on the ground that all are violently anti-Israel...
...week's end Israel's Milwaukee-raised Foreign Minister Golda Meir was invited to London on short notice. She had just held "satisfactory" talks with the French in Paris, where the De Gaulle government promised stepped-up arms shipments (Israel and France have been buddies against Nasser since Suez). From the British, about whom Israelis feel less sure, Minister Meir wanted a briefing on their intentions in Jordan, and a definite promise that, if the British do pull out, they will leave no arms behind them that could be used by a Nasser-dominated Jordan against Israel...