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...excited stories, spoke of tanks, planes and troops locked in "raging" battle for Lebanon and the whole Arab world. Wherever diplomats drank, voices were heard forecasting that the West was headed for a second Suez, and demanding to know when the West was going to face up to Nasser. U.S. Senator John Kennedy declared that the U.S. stood on the brink of war, while Columnist Joe Alsop cried that another Munich was in the offing. Some argued that it would be madness to send in Western forces to save President Chamoun's regime in Lebanon; others said it would...
...defeat there would make precarious the fortunes of those Arab leaders in Iraq and Jordan who had identified themselves with the West. The question was not whether the survival of Lebanon is important; it is. The question was how best to save it from the double-headed threat of Nasserism and Communism, both working against the West, though not necessarily for common ends.* To force Lebanon into a choice of who is for Chamoun, v. who is for Nasser would be to force many who did not want to be for Nasser into choosing Arab nationalism over a too heavy...
...urgent problem of Lebanon had indeed been aggravated by the shrill symphony of hate orchestrated from Radio Cairo, and the rebels had been mischievously bolstered by arms and men smuggled in from Nasser's Syria, but the solution to most of Lebanon's troubles was still to be found inside its own border...
...Swarm. Nasser, replacing Red influence with his own, has made progress in preventing the Syrians from slipping farther into the Soviet orbit, but the socalled "northern region" of the U.A.R. remains infiltrated by Communists to an alarming degree. An estimated 1,000 Soviet technicians, military advisers and embassy personnel are stationed in Syria; the area is aswarm with "technical" missions of bridge builders, oil surveyors and "fertilizer experts." Syria is dependent on Russia for $170 million of its $600 million development program...
Rebuke from Cairo. To consolidate his own authority in Syria, Nasser has dispatched more than 200 civilian officials and several thousand Egyptian troops into Syria, stationing at least one Egyptian officer with every Syrian army company. Playing his proconsuls against each other. Nasser has split authority in Syria among 1) Old Politicos Akram Hourani and Sabri el Assali, Vice Presidents of the U.A.R.; 2) Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, now Interior Minister, press czar, and boss of a police state intelligence network; 3) Mahmoud Riad, onetime Egyptian army colonel and Ambassador to Syria, who is Nasser's shadow in Damascus...