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Your Aug. 27 studied denunciation of Egypt's Nasser reminds me of what the British press must have sounded like in the 1770s about another colony troublemaker-George Washington...
...Squeeze. Nasser was also kept busy fending off the fine web that the British and French have begun to weave around his economy. The most immediately threatening web was that binding key Suez Canal technicians to the old Frenchrun company. After Nasser said yes to Menzies, the French government announced that the company would not pull out its foreign pilots until the talks were over. "But," added a Foreign Ministry spokesman, "we cannot expect them to stay indefinitely...
...Nasser himself decided that the trial should be held in public and in a civil court. When advisers protested that military secrets might be compromised by a public trial, Nasser snapped: "I don't care about military secrets. I want the public to know about everything." The prosecutor said at once that he would demand the death penalty for the Britons...
...Nasser the squeeze caused by the tying up of Egypt's sterling accounts is already starting to hurt. Last week Saudi Arabia eased things a bit by putting up $10 million for Egypt's use against an equivalent sum in Egyptian pounds, and Nasser and his Finance Minister talked long with Russian Ambassador Kiselev about more help from the Soviet bloc. The No. i problem: paying for the 600,000 tons of wheat Egypt must import in the next nine months. Buying it as usual on the world market would use up $47 million, or half...
...charge of persuading Nasser to reach a Suez agreement: Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, regarded by some of his Commonwealth partners as the ablest statesman now in office in the Commonwealth...