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...everybody feels free to leave everything in his hands." But the fact seems to be that the U.S.. perhaps following Ike's example, has learned to live with crisis-and to weight the crises as they come. Americans generally understood the gravity of both Hungary and Suez, but they regard the follow-up steps in the Middle East as one of those things that Ike and Dulles ought to be able to handle without pestering too many other people...
...West, Fla. last December, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was convalescing from his operation for intestinal cancer. It was some convalescence. Each day at 10 a.m. he was on the phone to the President and the State Department, keeping abreast of the Suez crisis and the U.S. efforts to keep the Russian "volunteers" out of the Middle East. At 11 o'clock he would knock off to lie on the beach or go fishing; after lunch he would take a nap or go fishing some more. Each evening before dinner Dulles would invite his one Key West assistant...
...British and French Foreign Ministers told him that the U.S.'s principal job was to make its presence felt in the Middle East. Dulles assured them both that a way would be found to do it. The objective: developing a long range U.S. initiative to fill the post-Suez power deficit and to work toward an enduring stability...
...Emergency Force moved in. Another day Syria agreed to start repairing oil pipelines sabotaged during the British-French-Israeli attack on Egypt, through which Iraqi oil can be pumped to Mediterranean ports en route to Europe. Even Nasser's Egypt, still dickering on complexities like who pays what Suez Canal tolls to whom, was ready to allow removal of the last blockships and the waterway could be cleared within the month (see FOREIGN NEWS). This week the President will send former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman James P. Richards to the Middle East to explain the doctrine to Middle...
...Europe-bound tourists, worried over reports of gas rationing and of train schedules dislocated by the Suez crisis, American Express had a reassuring word. Barring any drastic new international flare-up, Western European travel conditions will be just about the same as in 1956. After checking in with the governments of 18 countries, American Express