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...flames of world controversy burned hottest: in Munich during Hitler's brawling beer-hall days, in North Africa patiently maneuvering to deliver Vichy France's colonies to the World War II Allies, in Berlin during the airlift, in Trieste and at Panmunjom, in London during the Suez crisis. To Tunisians he is "Monsieur Bans Offices," to austere Britons he is "Breezy Bob," and to Pravda he is "Warmonger Murphy." To friends and enemies alike, he is perhaps the world's fastest-moving, most highly skilled diplomatic fireman...
...Israel's Milwaukee-raised Foreign Minister Golda Meir was invited to London on short notice. She had just held "satisfactory" talks with the French in Paris, where the De Gaulle government promised stepped-up arms shipments (Israel and France have been buddies against Nasser since Suez). From the British, about whom Israelis feel less sure, Minister Meir wanted a briefing on their intentions in Jordan, and a definite promise that, if the British do pull out, they will leave no arms behind them that could be used by a Nasser-dominated Jordan against Israel...
President Chamoun's election, and during the Suez crisis he held office briefly again as Chamoun's Defense Minister. Throughout this year's fighting, he has invited rebel leaders to tea, kept their supply lines open, consulted them regularly by telephone. But he would not order army troops to attack rebels, despite heaviest pressure from the palace and Western embassies, presumably because he wanted to preserve his army's scrupulous political neutrality. When the Marines landed, Chehab felt Chamoun had betrayed him by inviting them without consulting him. He opposed the landing, and at first refused...
...Ardennes, Hiroshima was bombed, China fell to the Communists, bandits stole a million dollars in Boston, the Korean war began and ended, General Dwight Eisenhower became President of the U.S.. Stalin died, King Farouk fled Egypt, Mount Everest was scaled, Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier, Nasser seized the Suez Canal-nations fought and statesmen died and the seasons made their slow revolve in the Norman fields around Mont-d'Origny...
Seaton wants the industry to operate in much the same manner as during Suez, but on a wider scale. Instead of concerning itself chiefly with alternate transportation for oil that normally passed through the canal, the new Middle East emergency committee will stress production as well. All the major overseas operators will be members, plus several wholly domestic companies, which were excluded from the Suez committee. For better coordination the plan provides a fulltime government employee (probably Oil Import Administrator Matthew Y. Carson Jr.) as chairman-rather than an industry representative, as during Suez. With details already worked out, Seaton...