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...sure, like the election itself, Egypt's happy state was not quite all it seemed to be. Before trusting his future to the 5,000,000 Egyptians who trooped to the polls last week, Strongman Nasser had made sure of the results by eliminating all opposition in the key districts. Even so, some 16 voters were reported killed in the fray and another 40 injured; when the final count was made, the Interior Ministry announced that new elections would have to be held in 172 out of the 269 districts reporting since no candidate had been able to muster...
Isolated Man. Still loyal to his throttled dreams of dominating the Arab world, Strongman Nasser was seeking them now in a new direction. He was trying to win himself back in the good graces of Britain, while his Voice of the Arabs radio turned on an unprecedented campaign of hatred against the U.S., which had saved his neck during the Anglo-French invasion but was now effectively curbing his ambitions under the Eisenhower Doctrine...
More and more, Nasser found himself backed into a lonely corner. As U.S. influence grew to supplant that of Britain as the principal stumbling block to his own ambitious plans for the Middle East, Egypt has been forced to look to Soviet Russia for encouragement. Russian trade with Egypt in the first months of this year quadrupled 1956's figures-but Russia is proving itself an exacting, suspicious and unprofitable partner, and Nasser's Moscow commitments have roused the Arab world's three Kings (Saud, Hussein and Feisal...
Last week Nasser sent his No. 1 military man, Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, scurrying off to neighboring Saudi Arabia to patch things up with oil-rich King Saud. Earlier in the week, sitting before the cameras of Britain's Independent Television News-as Russia's Khrushchev did for CBS in the U.S.-Nasser sent an amiable grimace into several million British living rooms. "I'm sorry," he said, "about that period of bad relations between Britain and Egypt. We hope that both countries will work for good relations in order to be friendly again...
Another Thing. Robin Day, the shrewd British interviewer who asked the questions for Britain's ITN, wanted to know how Nasser reconciled his stand against Communism at home with his overseas dealing with Russia. "Well," said the dictator, "local Communism is illegal, but dealing with Russia is another thing." Confronted with a direct question on Egyptian policy toward Israel-whether he really wanted to see its destruction as a state-Nasser tried desperately to fight his way between the Charybdis of a yes that would please Arabs and the Scylla of a no that would mollify the West. "There...