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Double Play. Their deal gave Nasser a reported 200 MIG fighters, 50 jet bombers, 200 tanks, two destroyers, six submarines. Nonetheless, Washington at first took Nasser's word that it was just a commercial transaction with the Czechs, based on considerations of self-defense and the need for bartering away surplus cotton. Turning the other cheek, the U.S. practically embargoed arms shipments to Israel, and even volunteered to help build a $1.3 billion dam at Aswan, offering Nasser a $56 million grant for a starter. The World Bank pledged an additional $200 million loan...
...stood to get a dam from the West. He began to throw his weight around. When the British tried to line up Jordan with the Baghdad Pact, he counterpunched. Radio Cairo's propaganda, joined by Saudi gold and Communist intrigue, helped blow Glubb Pasha out of Jordan. Nasser's broadcasts spread hatred for the U.S. among the 900,000 Palestinian refugees. In French North Africa, Nasser's radio preached enmity to the French. Despite Nasser's "soldier's word" to the contrary, the French say that in Algeria they have captured 50 graduates of Egyptian...
...Three Circles of Nasser's Ambition
...Nasser's The Philosophy of the Revolution, published two years ago, has now become must reading in Western chancelleries. France's Premier Mollet calls it Nasser's Mein Kampf. In a time of tension, the comparison is pat, but overreaching. Yet, like Mein Kampf, Nasser's little book is a self-revealing portrait of a restless, unstable man intoxicated with vast ambitions. Excerpts...
...Correspondent." Outraged by these disorders, Sheik Sulman not only refused to fire Belgrave but exiled the reformist leader, Abdul Rahman Bakir−who promptly took refuge in Nasser's Cairo. The British Foreign Office, however, disturbed by Egypt's growing influence in Bahrein and anxious to avoid another blow to British prestige like Jordan's unseemly ouster of Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb (TIME, March 12), pressured Belgrave to get out while the getting was good. Last week, in a brief dispatch from "our own correspondent in Bahrein," the London Times reported that "the Sheik of Bahrein...