Word: nasser
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...could have been handled better, but surely the petrol rationing that is taking place here and in Europe should convince even the most starry-eyed idealist that this waterway will be vital to Europe for at least the next ten years. It can never remain at the mercy of Nasser or any other purely national figure...
...Egypt, Dulles had not consulted Britain on canceling the offer to build Egypt's Aswan High Dam. (The facts: Britain got one day's advance warning that the U.S. was considering cancellation; in any event, Britain had long been urging the U.S. to get tough with Nasser.) And in London last week nobody was more surprised than New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Don Cook when the Foreign Office's august Permanent Undersecretary, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, whisked him aside during a party to propound that unless the U.S. went along with the British on Suez, the Eden government...
...color on the other. The Soviet Union must not be allowed to have a monopoly of defending the latter group. These two principles are justified." Pineau added: "But what is not, and what is even singularly paradoxical, is to conclude that the U.S. should lend its help to Nasser. Despite our bitterness, we cannot renounce either U.S. friendship or the Atlantic Alliance. It is our only safeguard against a fate similar to that of Hungary...
...that Nasser was promising to behave, and perhaps had to, the concern about Russian penetration of the Middle East turned to a second trouble spot: Syria. There, another Russian-backed Nasser has come to power: young, handsome bachelor Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj. From the moment Syria proclaimed martial law after the Anglo-French and Israeli invasions of Egypt, President Shukri el Kuwatly has been the virtual prisoner of the army, and Colonel Serraj has established himself as Syria's strongman. Nominally the army's chief of intelligence, Colonel Serraj last month personally planned the sabotage...
...Iraq, Western diplomats reported that 50 of Premier Nuri es-Said's police were injured putting down the latest of a series of almost daily pro-Nasser riots in Baghdad. The government replied by ordering high schools and universities closed indefinitely...