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Remarkable Restraint. One point of current diplomacy that impressed Humphrey: when Nasser spoke of Israel, he seemed remarkably restrained. Possibly he was feeling his way toward some face-saving way of settling the problems of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. Humphrey's final reassurance on behalf of the U.S.: "We don't want a grain of sand from your deserts, a stone from your pyramids, or a drop of water from your canal. We don't even want your gratitude. All we want is peace...
Aware of opposition like Salisbury's in his own party, Harold Macmillan has worked to reverse Sir Anthony Eden's Suez policy without openly repudiating it. As one way of accomplishing this delicate task, Macmillan kept in office Eden's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, 52, whose disingenuous justification of Eden's Suez policy was not a high point in Britain's long diplomatic history. The press has been crying for Lloyd's resignation, and within the Tory Party itself, there is considerable malicious glee at the report that Sir Winston Churchill refers to Selwyn...
...Including two that made the long trip from the Barents Sea just before the Suez crisis. the West either: an Italian motor launch makes a monthly trip from Bari, across the Adriatic...
...tasks interrupted by the Suez invasion was President Nasser's widely publicized promise to provide his regime with a popularly chosen Parliament. Nasser himself often told American visitors, in the friendly old days, that he knew his regime was too narrowly based, and that if he could keep out the corrupt and reactionary old politicians, he would like to revive democracy in Egypt. In fact, his narrow little junta of officers have neither the competence, the imagination or the time to administer Egypt's economy; in their distrust of everything past and pro-Western, they have shut themselves...
Nowhere does emotion defy statistics more than in the case of oil. Argentina has reserves estimated at 882 million bbl., yet last year it paid out $220 million, a sum greater than its foreign-trade loss, to import oil from Venezuela and elsewhere. The Suez crisis cost the country a cruel $100 million in higher crude prices and freights. Foreign oil companies would get the oil out of the ground or spend millions in Argentina trying. Instead, oil-is-ours nationalism assigns petroleum development to the capital-short, bureaucratic Y.P.F...