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...cessation of hostilities is a difficult problem, but a lasting agreement among the four nations seems next to impossible. Especially since the bombing of Cairo and the rupture of diplomatic relations, it is hard to imagine Nasser (or any Egyptian) sitting at the same conference table with any of the offenders. Something fantastically imaginative will be necessary to soften the rigidity of both sides. One possibility might be a meeting of leaders of the great powers in Cairo, as soon as it seems safe or feasible. We do not mean that President Eisenhower should float like Cleopatra down the Nile...
Concerning the present crisis in the Near East, he said that this administration has "spoon fed" Nasser to a position of importance while treating Israel with "cold disdain...
...under an avalanche of criticism in the press for his frenzied calling up of some 20,000 reserves on short notice. In the first angry moment of the Suez crisis, the regular army was too sprawled out and disorganized to provide a real threat to Egypt's Colonel Nasser...
This initial unreadiness of British arms has not yet been made the political issue it may some day become in Britain. "I never thought the British would use force," Egypt's Nasser told TIME last week. "I have good intelligence, and I knew they weren't ready...
...week's end, Egypt admitted that the Athos had indeed sailed from Alexandria harbor a fortnight earlier, but denied supplying the arms because "the international situation does not permit Egypt to deprive itself of modern armaments." The French, feeling at last that they now had a case against Nasser, were considering taking the Athos case to the U.N. Security Council...