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...guests, Nasser put on a pointed display of his 4th Armored Division-four serried ranks of Russian tanks, self-propelled artillery, tank destroyers and personnel carriers 75 abreast, over which flew a flight of 15 Ilyushin jet bombers and ten MIGs. "You see, we still do have an army," said one Egyptian major. But after 17 hours of talk, including a private talk between Nasser and Saud that lasted until 3 one morning, the conference dissolved in a mist of platitudes...
Standoff. The meeting had been expected to produce a definitive declaration on the Eisenhower Doctrine by what the kept Cairo press likes to call the "free Arabs"-as opposed to the "kept Arabs" like the Iraqis, who belong to Western pacts. It did not. Nasser refused to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine on the plea that it had not yet been fully explained. Saud refused to condemn it. Result: no mention of the doctrine at all, except an oblique insistence that "the defense of the Arab world should emanate from the Arab nation...
Plainly, Saud was still wary of Nasser's power over the Arab masses, and did not want a break with him. But the conference might prove to be a turning point in a sense the Cairo press did not intend, for it showed that in the Arab world Nasser could count fully on only one other supporter, Communist-infiltrated Syria...
...Testament patriarch. Israel, he proclaimed, was in danger. Israel's youth must gird itself, man new settlements along the threatened border, stand ready to repel the merciless Arab. Last October, at 70, he risked all on a bold and cunning "preventive war" to knock out Nasser's new, Soviet-supplied army...
They have shown that they can lick the strongest of their neighbors. They have shown up the extent of Soviet penetration in the Middle East by capturing huge stockpiles of tanks, guns and motorized equipment. They have shown up the hollowness of Nasser's vaunted four-power pact, signed just before the Sinai invasion, by which Syrian, Saudi and Jordanian troops were supposed to march under Egyptian command. And the first frightened session of desert kings that convened after the Sinai rout in Beirut last November signaled a shift which may well make last week's Cairo session...