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...protocol of presenting credentials, France's newly arrived Ambassador Herve Alphand rushed from the airport to State Department consultations with Dulles. In Cairo the U.S.'s Loy Henderson, reportedly with the support of the Iranian and Ethiopian representatives, pressed Menzies for one more try at compromise with Nasser. After a heart searching discussion the committee agreed to ask Nasser for one more session. A new press officer announced that "the discussions have not yet reached their final stage and are still going...
...last day Menzies led his committee back into Nasser's office for a final 25-minute talk. Nothing changed. After handshakes all around and a smiling goodbye from Nasser, Menzies emerged to tell newsmen: "A communique will be issued which will not tell you anything besides the fact that the discussions have ended. Copies of the documents will be issued, and you will know as much as I know." With that the Prime Minister ordered his plane, flew back to report to Sir Anthony Eden in London, where the next phase of the Suez crisis began...
...West Germany last week were Egyptians. It was their job, in a desperate response to calls for help from Cairo, to comb the Kiel Canal and other German waterways in search of pilots skillful and experienced enough to guide a ship through the Suez. For the one thing Colonel Nasser cannot do without, if he is to run the canal successfully, is pilots. Any day now all but a handful of the pilots needed to keep boats moving may leave their jobs. If they do, and traffic piles up, a new and crucial phase of the Suez crisis...
...vessel's own hull curvature. In addition, the Suez pilot must be familiar with the workings of virtually every type of vessel and must be able to issue orders in a babel ranging from Greek and Arabic to French and Norwegian. Under the canal's pre-Nasser bosses, a master's certificate backed by ten years' experience at sea were minimum requirements for a Suez pilot, and even then it took two years of apprenticeship on the canal to teach a new pilot the ropes and another ten to fit him for handling the biggest ships...
...year, offers generous bonuses for overtime, shares of the profits, liberal family allowances, special housing and schools and long paid vacations. Only about 40 of the 200-odd pilots now on the Suez roll are native Egyptians, and these were laid on only because Nasser refused to grant visas to any more foreign pilots unless some of his own countrymen were put on the roster...