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...four delegates flew to Nice-but the next thing France knew, they had flown via Switzerland to Egypt to confer with France's archenemy. President Nasser. Last week, having dropped out of sight for 2% months, they arrived in Morocco to swear allegiance to Mohammed...
...would definitely go to Cairo any time [Nasser] invites me," said Israel's 71-year-old Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week. "Though I suspect his ambition is to be the dominating leader in Africa and the Moslem world," B-G told Look's William Attwood, "I have never thought of him as a Hitler; I don't think he would or could do what Hitler did. Therefore I would not hesitate to negotiate with...
...VIPs who are pumped by Gunther also turn to him for information. Says Egypt's President Nasser: "You have to take Gunther seriously, because he tells both sides." Inside Europe landed in Churchill's library (and so firmly in Hitler's bad book that Gunther was marked for postwar liquidation by the Nazis). Inside Asia was on Harry Truman's desk when he broadcast his V-J day speech. Inside Africa was studied dutifully by Russia's Dmitry Shepilov, who cited it in a United Nations tirade against British colonialism, and by Richard Nixon, whose...
...Dynast. This, it seems, was the last straw. Saud called on his brother, Crown Prince Feisal, 54, to take charge of the country, save its finances, and make peace with Nasser. To Feisal, Saud formally granted "full power to lay down the state's internal, external and financial policies." Feisal immediately took over control of the Saudi armed forces, fired the King's two top advisers on defense and the budget. Behind the ancient veil of the remote Arabian capital, change had finally overtaken the proud throne raised to conquest and splendor by the "Lion of the Desert...
Rumor getting serious attention currently in the Middle East: that Gamal Abdel Nasser, driving for his Arab union, will next arrange for the Egyptian-run Gaza Strip to announce its independence as a nation. The strip's 300.000 Palestinians, mostly refugees from Israeli-held territory, would then vote themselves into his United Arab Republic. Such a "state" might be expected to attract the disruptive loyalty of the more than 500,000 other Palestinian refugees living in Jordan. Already the newly created Gaza local government council calls itself the Palestine Legislative Assembly, and the map of "Arab Palestine" behind...