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CAIRO, March 25--The last big plug was lifted from the Suez Canal today...
...Nasser while there were still levers to use on him, instead of waiting until the U.N. had given him his territory back and cleared his canal. At week's end, going a little further, Cairo announced that Nasser had decided to deny passage to Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and that his Saudi Arabian allies, who control the Gulf of Aqaba's southeastern shore, were determined to bar any assertion of Israeli shipping rights in such "absolute Arab territory...
...when Macmillan was British Resident Minister at Ike's Algiers headquarters) had no formal agenda but much on their minds. Their main problem was to reestablish, between two nations, the working relationship that was shaken by Britain's decision to throw in with France and Israel on Suez...
...differences were real, and some of them remain. Neither in Sir Anthony Eden's resignation nor in Macmillan's assumption of office has there been any British acknowledgment of regret for its Suez invasion: it is generally regarded in Britain as a failure, but not a mistake. Selwyn Lloyd, Eden's Foreign Secretary, is still on the job, six months after Suez. The mood of the British press last week, as Nasser threw up new difficulties after Israel's withdrawal from his territory, was to crow at the U.S.: "I told you so." London papers, which...
...influence in the area-a defeat underlined last week by the agreement ending the 35-year-old relationship with Jordan and abandonment of its bases and installations there-Britain can only urge that the U.S. do what the British would like to see done, i.e., boycott the reopened Suez canal if Nasser makes any difficulty about tolls or free passage for ships of all nations...