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Booby Traps in Egypt. And although Nasser's Cairo editorialists attacked the plan as anti-Arab (they had not yet caught up with the fact that the plan is free and voluntary), Nasser himself awaited the arrival of the promised U.S. mission. "It is colonialism and Zionism that have been the cause of the strife, and not Communism," said one Egyptian, indicating the booby traps of outlook that lay ahead for the new U.S. policy. "Communism is outlawed in Egypt." From India, Jawaharlal Nehru chimed in with the comment that the U.S. attempt to send military...
Commented Spaak dryly: "The European nations are something like scattered chicks when they see a hawk hovering above them-whether in the form of Stalin or Nasser-they tend to come together...
Syria lost a fifth of its revenues ($20 million a year) by its pro-Nasser gesture of blowing up the pipelines carrying Iraqi oil across the country to the Mediterranean...
From the time of Mohammed the Prophet, Arabs have had a single, possessive name for the littoral lands that stretch along the African shore of the Mediterranean from Tripoli to Casablanca -"Djezira-el-Maghreb," or "Island of the West." In Cairo last week, where Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser keeps a small shoal of exiles from French North Africa (some fleeing trouble, some fomenting it), Egypt's ambitious Arab nationalists were worried by reports of a plan designed to take Maghreb out from under their noses...
Natural Nations. French-educated Bourguiba makes no secret of his distaste for Nasser's setting himself up as leader of the Algerians' fight for freedom. Despite public avowals of Arab solidarity, Arab leaders in French North Africa privately look down on the Arabs of the Middle East, consider themselves far more advanced both culturally and economically...