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Superficially the odds favored Nasser. The Suez Canal was his to have and hold, and any challenger would have to wrest it from him. But Menzies too had sources of strength. His five-nation committee represented 18 nations who between them account for 95% of the Suez Canal traffic. And he had pressures to bring to bear which might make even an impetuous strongman hesitate...
...pressures were of two kinds and represented two different lines of philosophy (thus all the confusion in last week's headlines). The proposal Menzies put before Nasser was basically that of the U.S., which spoke for those who saw Nasser as a proud man, and sought to formulate a control plan for the Suez in such a disarming way that he could accept it. The French and British, on the other hand, seemed to size up Nasser as a power-minded man who, far from being scared off by the threat of force, had to be confronted with...
Gentle Him. When Nasser agreed to listen to the Menzies mission, both President Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles praised him for making a "contribution." When Nasser protested at Ike's reference to the canal as "internationalized by the Treaty of 1888," the President replied in his most conciliatory tones that he was not challenging Egypt's nationalization of the canal company. Dulles, talking to reporters, pointedly omitted using the 18-nation plan's term "international operation" of Suez, which the Egyptians have said they would never accept. By thinking of the problem not in "these great slogans...
...Nasser's Egypt, restive under the pressures it was subjected to, decided to apply a few pressures of its own. Cairo's press blossomed out with stories of a pan-Arab underground pledged to blow up Western oil installations in the Middle East if Egypt should be attacked, and told of volunteers reportedly arriving from Uganda and French Equatorial Africa to fight for Nasser. But the week's biggest sensation was a front-page spy plot with real-life British villains...
Everybody's Secrets. One day last week at teatime, Nasser's government rounded up two Britons and half a dozen Egyptians. Shortly thereafter, the Egyptian information chief announced that the two Englishmen-James Swinburn, 51, of the British-owned Arab News Agency and Charles Pittuck, 47, of the Marconi Radio & Telegraph Co. had made a "complete confession." According to the government spokesman, Swinburn headed "a dangerous espionage ring which worked for British intelligence and supplied it with information about the Egyptian armed forces." Swinburn's cook had told all, and Swinburn had been arrested just...