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...early as last April, when most people still considered Naguib the real power in Egypt, Bell was the first reporter to flatly identify Nasser as the driving force in Egypt's new regime. Cabled Bell: "When the British sit down with the Egyptians for the Suez evacuation talks, they will find the key man isn't Mohammed Naguib or Foreign Minister Fawzi. Instead, the big gun will be Gamal Nasser . . . Have interesting biography and anecdotes on Nasser, who is about due recognition for what...
Thousands of Egyptians paid 50 piasters ($1.40) apiece to gawk at the other items of the King's ransom displayed in the palace library. They saw a solid gold, 11-in. replica of the Suez lighthouse, a diamond-encrusted fly-whisk handle. An 18-carat gold bottleholder (still holding a bottle of Pepsi-Cola) stood near...
...calculated buildup." One Alex ander ambition: to build up a mobile strategic reserve in the U.K. This dashed hopes that the two-year draft might be reduced. Alexander's biggest difficulty: so many of Britain's 860,000 soldiers are needed in Malaya, Kenya, Hong Kong, the Suez...
...hoped also to withdraw from Ewo Breweries and from the big Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co. Shareholders would get little for the privilege of withdrawing their managers, except cessation of paying tribute for them. So ended trading in China of the firm with the biggest British investment east of Suez...
...Pakistan (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week that campaign was moderating. But in Cairo, India's suave, fellow-traveling Ambassador Sardar K. M. Panikkar was trying to stir up the Egyptian battle against the idea, and working to prevent the British and Egyptians from settling their Suez differences. He was skillfully opposed by Pakistan's representative Tayeb Hussein, who, when Britain and Egypt seem on the verge of a break, has a way of getting the negotiators back together again over his friendly dinner table...