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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took just as strong a position against a thinly veiled attempt of Egypt's Dictator Nasser to overturn the pro-U.S. government of Lebanon, a threat backstopped by a call from Moscow Radio last week for "volunteers." Dulles handed Nasser and the Communists a thinly veiled warning that the U.S. was ready to help the U.N. or act on its own to help the Lebanese government maintain the country's "integrity and independence." Said Dulles: 1) the U.S. Sixth Fleet is "watching the situation"; 2) some elements of the fleet "could...
...territory, particularly around the borders. And if the end did not come soon (or evaporate, as Middle East crises sometimes do), the confused and intermittent struggle for Lebanon might become a crucial battle for the whole Middle East. Behind the Lebanese revolt, whether he started it or not, stood Nasser, his propaganda stirred up hatred* and his agents smuggled arms. Back of the Lebanese government, which was the first in the Arab world to adhere to the Eisenhower Doctrine, stood...
...country by the tradition that assigns that office to a Roman Catholic of the Maronite sect, Chamoun had to beware of turning Lebanon's internal struggle into a religious war between Christians and Moslem Arabs bent on making Lebanon a Moslem-run country tied to Egypt's Nasser...
...accommodations or to find acceptable new ones, while men on all sides cried, "Either you are for me or against me." For those who would like to reduce politics to tidy simplicities, it might be tempting to equate Lebanon's Christians with the West and its Moslems with Nasser and to conclude that the West must throw its weight on the side of Christian dominance. But forcing nations to choose between two stark alternatives-whether the West v. Russia...
...when the matter came to a vote, the Soviet Union, instead of imposing an expected veto, merely abstained as the Security Council voted 10 to 0 to investigate the charges that the U.A.R. was pouring men, guns and munitions into tiny Lebanon. Reportedly, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser had asked Russia to withhold its veto: he himself was not yet ready to involve his restless Syrian satellite in reckless adventures...