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SAUDI ARABIA'S brown-robed King Saud, on his way home from Washington, will soon meet in Cairo with Egypt's President Nasser. In the four weeks since Saud and Nasser last met, there has been a perceptible shift of opinion in the Arab world. Though the Eisenhower Doctrine has given all Arab nations evidence of U.S. readiness to protect them, Arab leaders are trending away from Nasser on their own initiative. Beirut's Nahar quoted Saud as saying: "I am convinced that the future of the Arab world must be founded on its friendship with America...
...hotly debated details of the Suez crisis is whether Secretary of State Dulles provoked Egypt's Premier Nasser into seizing the Canal by a too-precipitate cancellation of U.S. funds for Egypt's dream project, the Aswan Dam. There is some evidence that Nasser had decided to nationalize the Canal long before Dulles canceled Aswan. Last week came evidence that Dulles' decision was so precipitate that the U.S. Ambassador in Cairo first learned about it from the newspapers...
Predictably, a Nasser spokesman in Cairo denounced the Dulles proposals as "obvious favoritism for Israel" and "a way to give Israel a political victory as a result of armed attack." But while waiting for Israel's answer, the Asian-Arab bloc at the U.N. withheld their resolution to impose sanctions against Israel...
Counter-Pressure. Any more concessions to Israel at this point would estrange the moderate Arab opinion that the new U.S. Middle East policy is trying to foster. Nasser was already systematically slowing down the work of clearing the Suez Canal. Last week, after U.N. salvage vessels finally raised and towed the cement-filled hulk Akka out of the main channel, the Egyptians continued to dawdle about removing explosives from the wrecked tug Edgar Bonnet, and thus effectively kept the ditch plugged. The U.S., however, was concerned less about Nasser's blackmail than about other Arab opinion...
Miss Ward attributed much of the present Suez crisis to the State Department's "complete rebuff" of President Nasser "I am still unconvinced that he wants to become a satellite in the Soviet orbit...