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...positive policy in the Middle East. The news was announced, in a backhanded way, by Secretary of State Dean Acheson during a press conference last week. He had just rebuked Egypt's Prime Minister for kicking up the dust over the presence of British troops along the Suez Canal (see FOREIGN NEWS). Acheson added that "new proposals" had already been prepared and were being offered to the Egyptian Government. The new plan would, said he, "contribute to the defense of the free world in which the Middle East plays such an important role...
...example was admiringly watched and quickly followed in the Middle East. In Egypt, 75-year-old Premier Mustafa Nahas Pasha, who like Mossadeq has spent most of his life baiting the British, seized the chance of a lifetime, jumped on the British with rough demands that they vacate the Suez Canal zone and the Sudan...
...place. In Egypt, trouble had been foreseen. The U.S., Britain, France and Turkey had long been at work on a plan. When Nahas Pasha-who knew the plan was coming-sounded off, the State Department hastily unveiled it. Its main features: ¶ Replace British control of the Suez with a new five-power agreement setting up a Middle East Command. Founder members: U.S., Britain, France, Turkey and Egypt...
...headquarters of the command in Egypt, for joint Suez Canal defense. Suggested initial donors of troops: Britain and Egypt...
...place." One man who is clearly under this impression is Egypt's El Nahas Pasha. In a go-minute speech before Egypt's noisy Parliament last week, he demanded: 1) evacuation of all British forces (some 35,000 troops, and fighter planes) from the strategic Suez Canal zone; 2) a constitutional amendment incorporating the Sudan into a new Nile kingdom of "Egypt and Sudan" (the Sudanese had not been consulted, but Nahas Pasha promised them a separate parliament, provided that Egypt could veto its laws and keep control of finance, military affairs and foreign policy...