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Elementary Values. Contrary to the impassioned feelings of Tory backbenchers, the British Foreign Office decided that there was no use in trying to bludgeon Nasser into making concessions: he had to be brought around slowly and carefully by the U.N. and the U.S. In the midst of the negotiations, blustery First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Hailsham, visiting Port Said, blurted out that no British ships could be employed without British crews. This provoked Nasser and his Foreign Minister into rejecting the idea of using any British ships. In the House of Commons, Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd addressed an implied...
Apart from ships now finishing the Port Said job, the U.N. has 31 Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Italian, Belgian and German ships available to haul at the 27 wrecks farther south. Still to be negotiated is the question of whether Nasser will let British-manned U.N. salvage vessels move down to help on this...
Across desert marked by the charred and twisted remains of Nasser's routed armor, the Yugoslavs churned slowly forward in their shiny, U.S.-built trucks. Because the Israelis had sown the roadside with mines (and neglected to provide any maps), the patrols seldom made better than two or three miles a day. One burly lot of Yugoslav Communists pitched their U.S. Army pup tents beside the road over which Joseph and Mary once fled with the Christ child into Egypt, and played volleyball in the freezing gale. Beside their tents they laid white-pebble signs in the sand: "Zivio...
...riding high. But they have yet to unseat Iraq's tough Strongman Nuri es-Said, 68, the coolheaded camelback raider of Lawrence of Arabia's World War I anti-Turk desert revolt, who boasts: "I was risking my life for the Cause of Arab independence before Nasser was out of his swaddling clothes...
...Baghdad Suhrawardy had seen for himself how Nasser intrigued against Iraq; he was also angry at Nasser's flirtation with Russia, and his cosying up to Pakistan's No. 1 enemy, Nehru's India. Last week, when a New York Times reporter made the conventional assumption, in the form of a question, that all of Asia and Africa stood behind Nasser, forthright Hussein Suhrawardy compressed his reply-and his current opinion of Egypt-into one word: "Phooey...