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...pressed too hard. In 1953 he threatened an "agonizing reappraisal" of U.S. policy for Western Europe if Europe failed to adopt the over-simplified European Defense Community. (Later he retreated gratefully to Anthony Eden's compromise Western European Union.) In abruptly canceling the Aswan Dam negotiations he provided Nasser with a public relations excuse for seizing the Suez Canal (which he had long intended to do anyway). Then Dulles, in a correct estimate that Britain and France were on the verge of war over Suez, jumped all too confusingly from one Suez Canal settlement proposal to another...
...Palestine mandate and had never been Egyptian soil since the days of Rameses the Great, 3,500 years before. The Israelis also demanded guaranties of free navigation through the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba before withdrawing from Sharm el Sheikh and Tiran, the strongholds from which Nasser had blocked their access to the gulf and the port of Elath...
Threatened Ruin. But if Nasser's sweeping decrees won little immediate net gain for his treasury, they threatened ruin to Egypt's middle class, which depends on trade with the West for its existence. Abroad, Egyptianization was bound to destroy the possibility of attracting new Western private investment in Egypt...
Last week, in fact, may have been the time at which, so far as the West is concerned, Egypt's Nasser passed the point of no return. In the U.S., there was less and less inclination to suffer any prolonged niggling over the Suez Canal. "Egypt," said a State Department man in notably undiplomatic language, "is becoming a damned bore." The New York Times put all its outrage into one editorial headline, EGYPT'S HITLER...
Looking Ahead. When President Eisenhower announced his new Middle East doctrine, Nasser said: "While Russia helps us, the U.S. freezes $50 million in Egyptian funds." Last week, as Nasser kept asking Washington to "clarify the vague parts" of a plan that his controlled press was denouncing as "more sinister than anything British imperialism could possibly conceive," the U.S. made plain that it had not opposed the Anglo-French invasion of Suez just to save Nasser's bacon, and hinted that it was not out merely to restore the status quo ante (see below). The Eisenhower Administration now expects...