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Though the shooting war has ended, the nations that invaded Egypt were still mad at Nasser. Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir accused the Egyptian government of planning the wholesale expulsion of 30,000 Jews from Egypt. Two days later, Britain and France protested to the U.N. that large numbers of the nearly 20,000 French and British nationals in Egypt were being forced out of the country in a manner "reminiscent of the barbarous methods of mass deportation . . . which have been practiced in other countries...
...Cairo Nasser told TIME a different story. "At the beginning," said he, "British and French citizens were completely free. Then came Port Said. We got news that French and British civilians were shooting people in the streets from windows and doors. We kept this out of the Egyptian press by censorship, for fear it would provoke popular acts against British and French citizens. We decided to tell British and French citizens they could not leave their homes . . . About 2,000 of these people have asked for exit visas, and about 1,000 of them have gone." As for the Jews...
...Despite Nasser's protestations, there was considerable evidence that Britons, Frenchmen and Jews resident in Egypt were indeed being given short shrift. In Marseille, Jewish refugees from Port Said tearfully insisted that a few days prior to the Anglo-French attack, the Egyptian police seized one hostage from each Jewish family in the city. In London, Englishmen newly expelled from Egypt reported that their homes and other possessions had been auctioned off by the Egyptian government, and all their funds over $28 confiscated...
Syria (pop. 3,800,000) became the new headline favorite. A flimsy agrarian republic about the size of North Dakota, Syria tries hard to sound like Nasser's most ferocious ally, though in fact it is about the weakest sister of the Arab world. The glory of the caliph's Damascus has been gone for 1,200 years. Modern Syria as a nation dates only from the World War I collapse of Turkey's Ottoman Empire. For almost 25 years the French ruled Syria as mandated territory, leaving behind some culture and much hatred. The young Republic...
Last summer, making common cause with Communists and crypto-Communists, Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, 31, gained the upper hand in the army, placed Syria's 25,000 troops under joint command with Nasser's, and pushed deals with the Soviet bloc that by last week brought the bulk of some 100 T-34 tanks, 200 armored personnel carriers and 20 MIG jets into the country. After the invasion of Egypt, Serraj blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline that carries 80% of Iraq's oil across Syria to the Mediterranean, and sent a brigade...