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...does the mighty Uncle Sam feel now? Not so pleasant to be expropriated instead of the supporter of expropriation is it? I wrote to you two years ago telling you that the U.S. would regret the betrayal of its allies at the time of Suez. Now you know how the British and French felt when Nasser with the support of the U.S. stole the Suez Canal. The price America is now paying is only part of that she will suffer for setting the precedent for international brigandage...
Administration would not win and could not stop [and] prevented half a dozen other threats from developing into war-Trieste, Iran, Guatemala, Formosa, Suez, Lebanon, Quemoy, West Berlin." At the same time, the Administration has built up "gigantic" but "balanced" military strength around the world, while closing the missile gap that it inherited from the Democrats. "The Eisenhower Administration today is putting 40 times more into [long-range] missiles each month than the previous Administration did in eight years." The Economy. At home, the Administration has spread the benefits of eco nomic prosperity "not by Government orders, edicts or controls...
...eagerness, Bicks sometimes moves before he has a case. He had such a flimsy case against 29 oil companies for supposed price fixing after the Suez crisis that the judge tossed out the case before the companies even put in a formal defense (TIME, Feb. 22). Yet his overall batting average is impressive...
...House-made diplomats shudder. Written by Illinois' liberal, pro-Israel Democrat Paul Douglas and endorsed by a gaggle of well-meaning Eastern Senators, the amendment would give President Eisenhower the power, but not the obligation, to withhold all mutual security funds from the United Arab Republic until the Suez Canal would again be open to Israeli shipping. The amendment posed no real threat to mutual security funds or to peace in the Middle East, but it was a sharp needle in the side of Arab nationalism and pride...
...placed any value on one of nature's worst mistakes. In World War II Montgomery bunched his forces at El Alamein in the neck of land between the Mediterranean and the nearly 1,000 ft. drop of the Depression, and thus kept Rommel's Afrika Korps from Suez. The Qattara was worth 200 armored divisions, said Rommel-to the British...