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...impoverished milord of today needs to be just as resourceful in dealing with the hostile natives," Time & Tide continued. "A friend of mine who has spent the past couple of years in the Middle East was annoyed at the way so many Arabs carried pictures of Colonel Nasser and kept bringing them out and kissing them. He was very grateful to TIME Magazine, he said, for publishing a cover picture of Sir Anthony Eden. Now he carries that around wherever he goes and kisses it ostentatiously in return...
...struck, as if by revelation, with the solution to the Algerian War. Poking into a ramshackle hut during a search for concealed arms, he saw on the wall three photographs: one of the late Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, one of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and one of De Gaulle. The Moslem owner of the hut, asked why he kept those particular pictures, replied: "Because they are chiefs." To Delbecque the deeper significance of this statement was obvious: bring De Gaulle back to power and the Algerian Moslems would rally to France again...
Soviet aid. bragged Nikita Khrushchev during Nasser's visit to Moscow last month, is "peace-loving, selfless sharing" -and unlike U.S. aid, always offered "without strings.'' But last week the tugging of Russian strings was visible for all to see in every uncommitted capital of the world...
...first European blush, Gromyko's action seemed to be a match for Secretary Dulles' famed 1956 abrupt withdrawal of U.S. aid to finance Nasser's Aswan Dam. Actually, the Soviet switch was an entirely different matter. Where the U.S. had only withdrawn an offer (which had gone seven months without being accepted, while Nasser tried to wangle better terms), the Russians were reneging on an agreement signed and sealed...
...dogged hope that "there should be no further intervention in our affairs from abroad," Lebanese Foreign Minister Charles Malik hurried to New York to press charges before the U. N. this week of "massive" aid to the rebels by Nasser's United Arab Republic...