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...idle Hashemite Kings in Iraq and Jordan, or rolled tanks up to Farouk's palace in 1942 to force the King to accept a Premier of British choosing. Princes placed in office in such fashion can be as easily removed, to the public's indifference. But Nasser had not reached power that way, and was not so easily dislodgeable. This was one expert miscalculation; the second was the misjudgment of world opinion. In the deception that preceded the Suez venture and the evasions that followed it, Eden damaged the world's image of Britain. History...
EGYPT Under Pressure Though his enemies abroad are apt to bemoan that the Suez debacle has made Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser "stronger than ever," it did not look that way last week in Cairo. The exhilaration of Egypt's political victory, after military defeat by the British, French and Israelis, has ended. The country is settling back into a chilling swamp of unsolved problems. Nasser finds himself in need of pulling something out of his hat-something as spectacular as his Communist arms deal or his seizure of the canal company. But the rabbits left...
...successful beginning of the canal clearance also put new pressure on Nasser, who had counted on the blocked canal as Egypt's best lever for getting the world to pry Israel out of Sinai and Gaza. The Israelis, who have so far given up barely half of Sinai, are demanding U.N. guarantees that Egypt will neither reoccupy Gaza nor obstruct passage for Israeli ships through the Gulf of Aqaba...
Economic problems are also catching up with Nasser. Last week the Egyptian regime began rationing kerosene, which millions of its subjects use for heating and cooking. As a result of declining government revenues, Cairo announced a 10% cutback in public spending. Nasser's need for the canal revenues is the best weapon the rest of the world has against his attempts to haggle too long over a Suez political settlement. At week's end, in the usual Egyptian style, the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram announced that Egypt would negotiate with Britain and France only if new governments took...
...East ceasefire. When the Russians intervened with murder and treachery in Hungary, Syrian newspapers printed nothing but Tass accounts of what went on in Budapest. Last week's Cabinet change reflected a coming into the open, if not coming fully to power, of the pro-Soviet and pro-Nasser clique headed by the Syrian army's mysterious 31-year-old Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj...