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...reappraisal" of U.S. policy for Western Europe if Europe failed to adopt the over-simplified European Defense Community. (Later he retreated gratefully to Anthony Eden's compromise Western European Union.) In abruptly canceling the Aswan Dam negotiations he provided Nasser with a public relations excuse for seizing the Suez Canal (which he had long intended to do anyway). Then Dulles, in a correct estimate that Britain and France were on the verge of war over Suez, jumped all too confusingly from one Suez Canal settlement proposal to another in his unsuccessful attempt to stave off the war. Today...
...Cabinet, and one of Ike's closest advisers. Hurnphrey sees the President frequently, talks to him more frequently by telephone. Ike likes Humphrey's blunt honesty and his ability to make decisions in any field. When Secretary Dulles was stricken in the midst of the Suez crisis, the President instinctively turned to Humphrey for counsel, and Ike's own confidence in Humphrey radiates through the Cabinet. After the President's heart attack, Cabinet officers gravitated to the Treasury Secretary's office, there discussed ways and means of carrying on in the Chief's absence...
...rebellion in the ranks of his once dedicated Deputies. Four refused to hand over their monthly paychecks to Poujade. Another four resigned outright. His chief legislative lieutenant, ex-Paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen, vol unteered for service in Algeria. When Poujade refused to back France's assault on Suez, Le Pen threatened to return when his service was over and rally 19 other dissatisfied Poujadists into a new party. Poujade needed a triumph if he was to keep the leadership of his tattered forces...
...Syrians said they would start the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s big pipeline pumping again only when the Israelis cleared out of Egypt. The Egyptians said they would start talking about a Suez Canal settlement if the Israelis would pull their remaining troops back from the Gaza strip and from the Egyptian forts commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. The Israelis said they would withdraw their troops if the U.N. would guarantee that Egypt would not use Gaza for a raiding base again and the forts as a strongpoint for blockading Israel's access to its port...
Since the Suez invasion, Iraqi, Syrian and Saudi Arabian troops have moved into Jordan to "protect" it; the Syrians and Saudis are still there. The Israelis watch edgily from across a 330-mile border, and at some future date might not mind advancing to the Jordan River, a natural frontier some 30 miles east from the present boundary, if they thought they could get away with it. The unceasing Arab nationalist agitation among Jordan's large Palestinian refugee population has moved young King Hussein to offer to give up his throne if that would advance the cause of Arab...