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Bent on avoiding a flare-up in the smoking Suez crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Administration had tried to nudge the Israelis out of Sinai by threatening to support U.N. sanctions against Israel. President Eisenhower sent a warning letter to Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion, and both Ike and Secretary of State Dulles dropped public hints for Israeli consumption-at the same time hoping fervently that the hints would be enough to forestall an embarrassing U.N. vote on sanctions...
...LESSEPS OF SUEZ (334 pp.)-Charles Beatfy-Harper...
...bronze, bigger-than-life statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps. builder of the Suez Canal, stood for 60 years in Port Said. Last December, as Egyptian demonstrators celebrated the withdrawal of the Franco-British invasion force, they expressed their hatred of all things European by blowing up the statue. The great builder would have been neither surprised nor resentful. Irrational violence, betrayal and humiliation dogged him all his long life without dampening his boundless optimism or shaking his firm belief in the essential goodness of man and the basic harmony of nations...
Ferdinand de Lesseps was the ideal 19th century man, a living embodiment of the "poetry of capitalism." His cheerful cry. "Open the world to the people!'' was echoed by the industrialists and investors of his time. The Suez Canal was to be only a beginning: De Lesseps dreamed of making an inland sea in the Sahara Desert, and of uniting Paris, Moscow, Peking and Bombay with a vast intercontinental railway...
Overweight Heir. The idea for the Suez Canal fired De Lesseps' imagination when he was 27 years old. Born into a French diplomatic family in 1805, De Lesseps had arrived in Alexandria as a consular official, and read a memoir on the Suez project written by one of Napoleon's aides during the occupation of Egypt 34 years before. He became a close friend of Said, the overweight heir to the Egyptian throne, by giving him free access to the consulate kitchen while the boy's militant father was trying to starve him into a semblance...