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...called him "a megalomaniac" dictator. "This is how Fascist governments behave," warns Sir Anthony Eden. The Cairo press calls him "savior of the people," the Israelis say "highway robber," "treacherous wolf." Nehru's private verdict: "Too young and inexperienced." To France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, Nasser is "a congenital liar...
...Card Game." Nasser's own view of himself is as a man of destiny, fitted to play a role in the Arab world "wandering aimlessly in search of a hero" (see box). "We are in a position to ruin the West if we set to work and stop talking," he has said...
...Nasser has always admitted that his movement was essentially negative, "a revolution without a plan." He has costumed himself in the verbiage of Western liberalism, but in fact his regime has been politically retrogressive. Only last June, 5,000,000 Egyptians certified his dictatorship by casting a 99.9% majority in "free" elections. Years ago he wrote a friend: "I really believe that imperialism is playing a one-card game in order to threaten only. If ever it knew that there were Egyptians ready to shed their blood and to meet force by force, it would have given way like...
Double Revolution. Nasser's own life sharply defines the Middle East's double revolution, in which men torn between new Western ideas and old Oriental traditions seek to shake off Europe's political dominance, but. with the techniques learned from Europe, also to break free from their country's stagnant past. It is a combination most often found these days in soldiers of humble origins, European-trained, and hotly nationalistic...
...Nasser was born in a farm village some 200 miles up the Nile from Cairo. Like most Egyptians, he was of mixed Egyptian and Arab stock. "We were all one family there," he has said. "The landlords treated the people as slaves." His father was an assistant postmaster. Sent to school in Cairo, young Nasser learned the classic Middle East three Rs: reading, 'riting and rioting. Shouting "O Almighty, disaster take the British!", he fought nationalist street battles, won admittance to the military academy. Of these struggles he has bitterly said: "You come back from your studies feeling...