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Last week Bourguiba's government accepted an offer of arms from Egypt's Nasser, even though Bourguiba himself has long resented Nasser's internal intriguing in French North Africa on behalf of Cairo-centered Arab nationalism. Within three days of taking Nasser's arms, President Bourguiba was able to inform his people that the U.S. had decided to help Tunisia get arms. They would be "Western arms, whether from Italy or elsewhere," he said, and they would arrive by October...
...Communists prolonged their wartime occupation of Azerbaijan in northern Iran, were forced out by U.N. pressure; between 1946 and 1949 the Communists sparked the Greek civil war, saw it fizzle out; in 1955 they sent tanks and MIGs to Egypt's volatile Gamal Abdel Nasser, saw them smashed in the Suez crisis. Now there was Syria. "There," said Dulles, "Soviet-bloc arms were exultantly received and political power has increasingly been taken over by those who depend upon Moscow. True patriots have been driven from positions of power by arrests or intimidation. One consequence of this is that Turkey...
...broadcast from a British minesweeper in World War II. He has rushed to floods, tornadoes and hurricanes, made three different trips to cover the Korean front-one during his month's vacation-and once had to be hospitalized for exhaustion on his return. Last season, between interviews with Nasser in Cairo, Chou En-lai in Rangoon, and Tito on the island of Brioni, he dashed off to cover the Suez invasion...
Egypt, so recently a firebrand 'in the Middle East, was also circumspect. Cairo's press, noisy as ever, swore eternal loyalty to Syria, even threatened that Egypt would close the Suez Canal if Syria were attacked. But Nasser himself, absorbed in his efforts to negotiate an economic settlement with France, and to retrieve the $40 million in Egyptian funds now blocked by the U.S., seemed to be scrupulously avoiding his old pastime of fishing in troubled waters...
...nations have diplomatic relations with Nationalist China, and where there were four embassies in Chiang's capital of Taipei in 1949, there are now 16. The last major nation to switch recognition from Chiang to the Reds was Egypt, which did so in May 1956 during Nasser's early flirtation with the Communists. In the last two months the Nationalists have won recognition from three previously uncommitted nations-Jordan. Liberia and Paraguay-hope to add a couple of others soon...