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...changes in our policies. I need a rest, but I also stepped down because I want to show I am no dictator." He scoffed at the idea (aired last week in the New York Times) that he was resigning so that some Iraqi premier less hostile to Nasser might negotiate a rapprochement with Egypt and Syria. Said Nuri: "Egypt has chosen to go with the Russians, we with the West. There can be no real improvement in our relations until one or the other changes policies, and we are not going to change ours...
With suitable fanfare, President Gamal Abdel Nasser set about creating a little more democracy than has existed in Egypt since he seized power in July 1952. For 22 days a three-man council headed by General Abdel Hakim Amer, Egypt's top military man, had been weeding out undesirables among the 2,508 candidates who filed for the 350-man Parliament in next week's elections. Last week, after Nasser himself had given the list a final pruning, the council announced the 1,322 survivors who would be allowed to submit themselves to the voters...
...Lebanon, pro-Nasser candidates met a humiliating defeat at the hands of the pro-Western forces of President Camille Chamoun and his Prime Minister Sami Solh (see below). The day had passed when word from Cairo could bring mobs into the streets of Beirut and make governments quail. Instead. Lebanon felt confident enough to brusquely deport the bureau chief of Nasser's propaganda apparatus, Middle East News...
...Iraq, Nasser's old enemy. Premier Nuri asSaid, was so scornful of Nasser's attacks that he had already announced plans to take a vacation as soon as he had formed his new government...
Electronic Conspiracy. Worst of all. his old ally. King Saud. whose money used to fuel Nasser's shrill pan-Arabism. spent all week conferring warmly with Jordan's young King Hussein in Amman. Only eight months ago, Hussein joined Syria and Saudi Arabia in putting their armies under the joint command of an Egyptian general. By last week the joint command had collapsed. Almost the first thing Saud asked on his arrival was what Hussein was doing about removing Egyptian-backed subversives. Hussein responded by demanding the recall of the Egyptian military attaché in Amman, Lieut. Colonel...