Word: nasser
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...crowd of newsmen in the cobblestoned courtyard. Calmly, he read from a typewritten sheet: "Before the Ministers' meeting I offered to Monsieur Coty, President of the Republic, my resignation and that of my government." Reason: he could not go along with the U.S. and British decision to accept Nasser's conditions for using the Suez Canal. Said Mollet bitterly: "If the U.N. must systematically give in to the desires of dictators . . . then it is not an organization worthy of its international character...
Suez issue. Mollet had given a patriotic dimension to what was essentially an economic debate. Normally a calm, rational schoolteacher, Guy Mollet hates Nasser with a smoldering passion, and the French respect him for it. One measure of Mollet's standing in the country: Montmartre's irreverent chansonniers, traditionally free with politicians in their songs, do not mock Mollet...
...bespectacled Lord Salisbury, who until he resigned from the government over Cyprus (TIME, April 8) was one of Macmillan's closest associates, bitingly called for a House of Lords debate on the Prime Minister's statement. Said Salisbury: "It goes far too near complete capitulation to Colonel Nasser than many of us would have felt bearable, or I was almost going to say, endurable...
...confidence -308 to 259. Aside from the eight rebel backbenchers, only six Tories, including Sir Anthony Eden's nephew John, failed to support the government. Even the blimpest of Blimps had to recognize that Macmillan had no practical alternative to allowing British ships through the canal at Nasser's price...
...between a regal round of banquets and state feasts the two Kings, as well as Iraqi Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Iraq's staunchly pro-Western Premier Nuri asSaid, got down to the business at hand: Soviet penetration, via Syria and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, of the Middle East. Saud, who mistrusts the British, watched parades of British-supplied military units, climbed aboard and peered through the hatch of a British Centurion tank. Probably the most significant meeting of the week was a private, unscheduled lunch given for the two monarchs by Premier asSaid at his yellow...