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...scene shifted to Cairo. There two men, by ordinary reckoning relatively minor contenders, met in the center of the ring with all the world looking on. Australia's white-haired Robert Gordon Menzies, assured and sagacious, faced Egypt's young Gamal Abdel Nasser, clever and ambitious. The stakes were high, the din was deafening and the outcome uncertain...
...their optimism Cypriots forgot the traditional stiff-necked British reluctance to negotiate with "rebels and outlaws." They also overlooked the fact that Colonel Nasser's as yet unpunished defiance of Britain at Suez made it politically attractive to the Eden government to continue a tough line in Cyprus (a restive group of Tory backbenchers known as the "Suez group" keeps urging on Eden the dated simplicities of gunboat diplomacy...
After two minor attacks on Israelis in the Negev desert, two parties of Israelis carried out separate ambushes inside the Gaza Strip in which nine Egyptian soldiers were killed. Usually this kind of outbreak rouses the anger of Egypt's Dictator Nasser and the fury of the Cairo press. Both were too busy with the Suez last week, and played down the incident. But Dag Hammarskjold was not looking the other way. He told Israel: "What I said in my [earlier] statement applies with equal strength to these new incidents...
...communiqué, because 1) the Panama Canal "is in some respects similar to the Suez Canal," and 2) a large merchant fleet flies the Panamanian flag.* On a visit to Cairo last week, Panama's Ambassador to Italy, doubling as Minister to Egypt, declared that Gamal Abdel Nasser had the right to nationalize the Suez Canal Company, and that Panama would never accept international control of its canal-comments that afforded Nasser & Co. some small aid and comfort...
Despite Panama's pique, there is no detectable sentiment, even among feverish nationalists, for attempting to take the canal over, Nasser-style. The Panama Canal handles less traffic than Suez (40.6 million tons in 1955 to 115.7 million), but it is even more complex to run because ships have to be raised and lowered by locks. And Panamanians are leary of bolstering arguments, commonplace in naval circles, that the U.S. ought to punch a new, broad, sea-level canal elsewhere through the narrow waist of the Americas...