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...Middle East and to get Nasser to endorse the Eisenhower plan. In turn, Saud beat down Syrian Kuwatly's attempt to express appreciation of Russian help to the Arab cause, and refused Nasser's plea for support of his plan to block clearance of the Suez Canal as long as the Israelis failed to withdraw. "If you block the canal, you don't hurt the Israelis, but you do hurt your friends," said Saud, who has been losing 30% of his oil revenues because of the Suez blockage. In these arguments, Jordan's Hussein, a Hashemite...
...President Eisenhower has now committed the U.S. in the Middle East. Lacking a steadfast and mature Middle East policy, the U.S. in the past tended to follow the British lead there long after it ceased to in other parts of the world. All that ended in the wreckage of Suez, and the U.S. has moved to fill the Middle East "power deficit" (the State Department avoids the word "vacuum" as offensive to Arab nationalist pride). The new U.S. policy, of which the Eisenhower Doctrine is the core, is by far the most important extension of foreign policy enunciated...
...problem was not Israel but the poverty of its people. The Eisenhower Administration pinned its hopes on him as the keystone of its new Middle East policy, backed his development programs with grants of $26 million, helped him lever the 80,000 troops of the British, grumbling, out of Suez. The U.S. sent as ambassador to Cairo a young West Pointer, Henry Byroade, who understood and liked Nasser as a fellow soldier. "Egypt stands today in every respect with the West," said Nasser, and Byroade sent back to Washington sympathetic and admiring reports. Even the Israelis considered Nasser the most...
...mortgaged Egypt's cotton crop to the Communists for years to come. Later Nasser also triumphantly announced that the deal was with Russia itself, not Czechoslovakia. Abruptly the U.S. lost patience, withdrew its offer to help finance the Aswan Dam. In retaliatory fury, Nasser seized the Suez Canal crying: "Americans, may you choke to death on your fury." Three months later, determined not just to teach him a lesson but to topple him, the Israelis, British and French attacked Suez...
There were other confusing aspects about the election. The Tories had put up no candidate at all; Lady Megan's chief opponent was a Liberal who had gone against his own party policy to support the Tory stand on Suez; and a third candidate, representing a Welsh nationalist party, declared herself as "not anti-anything, just constructive." When the votes were all in, Laborite Lady Megan was the victor by 3,069 votes. "A great victory for Labor. A reeling blow for the government," crowed Lady Megan...