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...there is plenty of room and rugged country for troop training as well as fairly good communications and storage facilities. Mombasa, an Indian Ocean seaport the royal navy wants to develop now that it is losing Trincomalee in Ceylon, has direct communications with the Persian Gulf, without permission of Nasser. Finally, now that the Mau Mau are quelled, the Kenya natives are friendlier than the population in Cyprus. Accordingly, Sandys returned last month convinced that Britain's main Middle East base should be moved south from Cyprus to Kenya, and Cyprus kept only as a bomber base in event...
Flying into Cairo with an escort of four Soviet-built Egyptian MIGs, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spent five hours chatting with Egypt's fire-eating President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Presumed topic A: resumption of relations between Egypt and Great Britain. Middleman Nehru's neutralist comment after the confab: Anglo-Egyptian relations are "progressively returning to normal...
Addressing 250 people in Littauer Auditorium, Allen said that Nasser requires a large army to keep him in power. But to justify this publicly, the Egyptian dictator must point to some foreign enemy. That alleged foreign enemy, he said, is Israel...
...addition, Nasser is most anxious to establish an Egyptian hegemony among the Arab states. Only the threat of an outside foe can overcome the mutual jealousies that ordinarily tend to separate the Arabs, so once again, Allon said, Nasser must keep before his would-be allies the image of a threatening Israel...
...other factors account for the intensity of Nasser's anti-Israeli campaign, Allon said. One is the natural desire to gain revenge for the horrendous losses the Eyyptians have sustained, both in the 1948 war and in the more recent Sinai campaign. Second, Nasser, like the other Arab rulers, maintain their personal positions only by dictatorial methods. They earnestly desire, said Allon, to destroy Israel, "this little show window of parliamentary democracy...