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...union with Egypt) that the Sudan did not achieve independence from Britain in order to become a dependent of Gamal Nasser. In the Khartoum Parliament, Khalil personally glowered down an attempt by the opposition to force him to break off diplomatic relations with Britain and France after they invaded Suez...
...will toward Dulles has been building for a long time. Britain never forgave him for blurting, after the Suez crisis-while attempting to point up the Middle East's low esteem for Britain and France-that if he were an American soldier he would not like to fight beside British and French troops in the Middle East. (DULLES INSULTS OUR FORCES, shrieked London's tabloid Daily Sketch.) France will not forgive Dulles for his support of local movements against French colonial rule in Indo-China, Tunisia and Morocco. Nor will India forgive him for calling Goa, an Indian...
...score, 1957 was a year of retreat and disarray for the West. For Britain and France, the U.S. allies who fill out the world's Big Four, the year's theme was a recessional. Sir Anthony Eden, physically sick and spiritually drained after the fiasco at Suez, resigned as Prime Minister. His successor put out a White Paper proclaiming that Britannia was done with ruling the waves, was thinning out the proud red line of far-flung posts on which the sun never set, and withdrawing to a more realistic stance as a tidier, tighter nuclear power. Guy Mollet...
...work. Like the practical man he is, he recognized that his liberalization had gone too far. In November 1956, when Hungary was fighting for its freedom, Nikita had lurched up to U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen at a Moscow party and said: "I want to talk to you about Suez." "I want to talk to you about Hungary," replied Bohlen. "What are you going to do about it?" Khrushchev exploded. Pumping his fist in a series of short uppercuts, he shouted: "We will put in more troops?and more troops?and more troops?and more troops?until we have finished them...
...doesn't tear so easily," said one. Nearly every machine in Egypt is Western-made, and for lack of spare parts and the money to buy them, many are on the verge of breakdown. Spare parts are urgently needed for dredges and other equipment used to keep the Suez Canal operating. Lubricating oil is so scarce that gas-station operators supply only favorite customers. Because of Nasser's controls, meat prices are soaring, and butter, tea and coffee are scarce. Many Cairo restaurants refuse to serve cabob because they cannot sell it for a profit. "Nasser," said...