Word: nasser
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...Nasser's pledge was certainly not the best or even the most hopeful protection for the ships that sail the Suez. But in cold fact a treaty would be little better than a pledge if he intended to violate and subvert it. The true proof will come in his actions...
Egypt's Nasser intrigues with Jordan extremists to join an Arab federation which Nasser would head. The Syrians hanker to see Jordan joined in a Greater Syria. The Saudis lay claim to Jordan's Aqaba area, now being evacuated by the last of the British hussars. The Iraqis, poising 10,000 picked troops at H3, the pipeline pumping station just over the northeastern border, aim to see Jordan merge with its fellow Hashemite kingdom if it merges with anybody. And the Israelis, with the best army and most troublesome border of all the neighbors, stand ready...
Under a compact that Nabulsi made with Syria, schools in Jordan and Syria now give common degrees, follow common courses, and eventually were to use common textbooks (to be produced by Nasser's professors). The Nabulsi government also initialed an agreement with Syria for a customs and currency union that would shortly have shifted Jordan's economic capital to Damascus-an arrangement that Jerusalem's sharp traders were slow in getting wise to. In their first months in office, Nabulsi's leftists brought the Anglo-Jordanian treaty to an end. replaced the British subsidy...
...Cabinet replied by voting to establish diplomatic relations with "our good friend the Soviet Union." The Palestinian leftists figured that they had Hussein licked-not so much because they dominated Parliament, controlled the streets and enjoyed the covert cooperation of young Army Chief Ali Abu Nuwar, but because Nasser, the overlord of Arab nationalism, was on their side...
...else mattered a great deal. Seen simply, the issue was between the nations like Iraq and Saudi Arabia which have chosen Washington, and Egyypt and Syria which are playing with Moscow. But nothing is ever that simple in the Middle East. King Saud likes Ike. but does not defy Nasser. Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly has himself flown to Moscow-but is disturbed by the way his ambitious young army colonel, Abdel Hamid Serraj, is nuzzling up to the Communists. Nasser himself would not want Jordan to deteriorate so rapidly that either of his enemies, Iraq or Israel...