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...blandishments and pressures, not on behalf of the West but on its own behalf. In their turn, neutralists have watched Communism operate, and learned to be wary. India has learned that Red China talks peace but grabs off border lands that have been traditionally Indian. After the Suez invasion, Egypt's Nasser accepted the embrace of the Russian bear and has been warily disentangling himself ever since. Iraq's Karim Kassem cut his nation adrift from the pro-Western Baghdad Pact and welcomed Russian aid. He soon found the Communists were using the situation to dislodge him from...
...understandably reluctant to associate itself with colonialism and the French debacle in Algeria. Yet the alternatives to supporting France involve either voting with the Soviet Union against a NATO ally,--in a tragic repetition of Suez--or remaining silent while the General Assembly lessens the chances for a lasting peace in Algeria...
Macmillan's first major task in New York was an embarrassing one: burying the hatchet with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. As Sir Anthony Eden's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Macmillan had been one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Britain's 1956 Suez invasion, which sought to topple Nasser. Now, swallowing his pride, Macmillan made a penitential journey to pay a call on Nasser, posed awkwardly for photographers beside the dictator of the Nile, who grinned...
...Communists, is riven by a hideous class warfare between the have-not nations and the haves," or when he states that it is the "balance of hope" rather than the "balance of power that is at stake." One's mind wanders from Black's fascinating negotiations over Suez and the Indus River basin back to the Presidential campaign...
...danger of war in Southeast Asia, the Australians (who occupy the other half of New Guinea) asked for an explanation, and Indonesia sent a formal note of protest. To avoid the probability that Sukarno would ask his neutralist friend Nasser to refuse to let the Doorman through the Suez Canal, the carrier was sent the long way around the Cape of Good Hope...