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...local movements against French colonial rule in Indo-China, Tunisia and Morocco. Nor will India forgive him for calling Goa, an Indian-claimed Portuguese colony on the India mainland, "a Portuguese province." Israel remembers that U.S. policy was much more pro-Israel during the Truman Administration. Egypt's Nasser hates Dulles for calling Nasser's attempt to play off Russia against the West. And Arabs in general will not forgive him for defending Israel's right to exist...
EGYPT. The $250 million barter deal that the Soviets negotiated with Nasser in September 1955 has cost Egypt dearly. What Egypt got was Czech arms-many of which were captured by the Israelis-plus such items as crude oil of such a high sulphur content that it damaged Egypt's refineries, and newsprint so coarse that it tore up Cairo's high-speed Western presses. In return. Nasser gave the Soviets a long-term mortgage on Egypt's cotton crop, the nation's No. 1 source of income. The Soviets started off by reselling Egypt...
...Egypt's President Nasser had ever felt dismay at Communist manipulation of the conference (as his lieutenants had assiduously suggested), all trace of it had vanished by conference's end. Nasser held a reception for the 500 conference delegates at Cairo's Abdin Palace, granted long private interviews to the heads of Soviet and Red Chinese delegations. The single solid result of the conference-an agreement to establish a permanent "Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Council"-clearly had Dictator Nasser's blessing. The new council will be headquartered in Cairo, will begin operations...
...fact, Nasser had with his own hand struck a grievous blow at his prospects of achieving leadership of Afro-Asia's restive peoples. For by giving Egyptian backing to the permanent Afro-Asian Council, he had in effect gone into partnership with Russia in a campaign to undermine Western influence in Africa. And in a partnership between Egypt and Russia, even self-confident Gamal Abdel Nasser could scarcely doubt which partner would call the tune...
...Turkomans. The conference's origins lay not in Cairo but in India, where 2½ years ago a pro-Communist Ihdian M.P. named Anup Singh organized the "Asian Solidarity Committee" to influence the first Afro-Asian conference at Bandung (TIME, May 2, 1955). Last year Singh approached Nasser, suggested a conference in Cairo as a suitable sequel to Bandung. It was a play on words. The delegates to the Bandung conference had been official representatives of their nations, many of them heads of their governments. The delegates to the Cairo conference officially represented nobody but themselves. Unofficially, the moving...