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...highest opinion of Humphrey's abilities, turned instinctively to him for counsel when Secretary of State Dulles lay ill during the Suez crisis. In February, even after Humphrey had flushed out the covey of budget cutters, the President went quail hunting on Humphrey's Georgia plantation. Because Humphrey is Ike's friend and a top Cabinet figure, his hair-curling statements called for an extra-strong presidential rebuke if the U.S. was to believe that it was being taxed for an honest-weight budget. Instead, Ike decided to smooth things over, seemed almost to be agreeing with...
...replace Jordan's $36 million-a-year British subsidy was proving largely a desert mirage. Syria's first remittance turned out to be not a check but a cheeky receipt-for "services" provided Jordan by Syrian army units stationed in Jordan since last fall's Suez invasion. Desperately convinced that Jordan's only way to survive as a kingdom was to qualify for U.S. Eisenhower plan aid, the young King publicly denounced Communist influence in the country and set out to purge the Nabulsi Cabinet of its three most blatantly pro-Communist members...
WASHINGTON, April 18--The State Department is expected to issue in a few days a statement which will effectively lower the barriers against use of the re-opened Suez Canal by American ships...
...Suez Policy...
...book does not bear much thinking about once it is put down, but while the story lasts, the reader is firmly held by the question of whether Emmet Booth will finally win. His pursuit of Miranda has the tried and true fascination of that famous cliche from East-of-Suez movies: the beautiful planter's wife playing Chopin while, across the terrace, a large speckled snake glides towards the heroine, ready to strike that lovely neck...