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Little as he may have sought the distinction, no man in recent years has done so much to stimulate European progress as Gamal Abdel Nasser. Living luxuriously on the memory of the day when Britain and Western Europe between them produced three-quarters of the world's industrial energy, most Europeans complacently accepted the fact that Britain must import 12% of her total energy requirements and Western Europe nearly a quarter. But when Egypt's Nasser seized the Suez, he forced all Europe to face up to the significance of these imports: Europe had lost her industrial independence...
LONDON, May 13--Prime Minister Macmillan today grudgingly acknowledged Egyptian President Nasser as boss for the moment of the Suez Canal. He told British ships to resume sailing through it on Egypt's terms...
Eight Conservative members of Parliament immediately quit the government party as a protest against what they regarded as a surrender to Nasser. They said appeasement of any kind "leads only to disaster...
...telephoned insistence that Syria's President Kuwatly-accompanied by Nasser's top aide, Ali Sabri-journeyed to Riyadh, where the desert King lectured the two of them like a displeased father and more or less ordered them to stop interfering in Jordan's "strictly internal" affairs. No sooner had they left (without even the formality of the usual communique praising Arab "unity"), than Saud got on the phone again to invite Hussein to Riyadh. Hussein hustled down by air last week, and King Saud gave him a big pep talk on the importance of keeping...
...year-old King Feisal, and perhaps his Hashemite cousin, Hussein of Jordan, too. Together these three Kings control a huge hunk of the Arab Middle East and the vast bulk of its economic resources. If Saud can submerge his old feuds with the Hashemites, an effective counterweight to Nasser (and to his lone ally, Syria) will have been built up in the Arab world itself...