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...London's Lancaster House, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles faced a roomful of uneasy men with varying ideas but a common interest. Their interest was to find, through diplomacy rather than war, the way to remove the Suez from the sole control of Egypt's Nasser. The immediate objective was to equip that common interest with a workable bargaining instrument fashioned from the Anglo-American plan for a canal users' association...
...part about the Aswan Dam offer was that it was ever permitted to turn into a game. Here the Nasser regime certainly deserves blame--especially for putting out false rumors of a mythical Soviet offer. But it was Washington which decided, after Egypt's purchase of Czech arms, that Nasser would have to go. To topple his regime, Nasser's major plan for economic development was insultingly rejected, and Washington waited. There is strength in this case, and Dulles' biggest gamble may yet pay off. The West must not forget that it is not playing with a dictator...
...West might take note of another fact: since Nasser has taken over the canal completely, responsibility seems to have become the motto of the day. Since even a minor accident by overworked canal pilots could now produce a major world crisis, Egypt is doing its best to run the canal safely, and speedily. There have even been reports that Nasser has permitted two Israeli chartered ships to pass through--an astounding fact, if true. And on the face of it, Nasser has said he would be willing, as an act of sovereignty, to renegotiate the Convention of 1888, which provided...
...Even if Nasser can continue to run the canal efficiently, the principle of international control should not be put aside. The right to nationalize, of course, is legally accepted. But a question which seems inherent in Western statements is whether nationalization of a waterway so important to so many nations should ever come under the unquestioned rule of one nation. Egypt's blockade of Israeli ships long before nationalization was ever considered proves that nations will not refrain from using territorial control over a waterway as a tool of national policy. When Dulles stated that the canal should be isolated...
...United States would make such a proposal, it would shake the world. it might well cut right through the ice which is now clogging the canal issue, and effect a settlement which should benefit all concerned. It would give Nasser an easy way to accept a form of international control. It would answer legitimate Western fears about Egypt's intentions. And it would take the next move away from the Soviet Union, which now seems to be the biggest and most important question-mark in Suez, and indeed, the whole Middle East...