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...Nasser. Yet when Hammarskjold arrived in Cairo, Nasser evasively refused to commit himself to "radio disarmament," but proclaimed to his assembled United Arab States Council: "We will not put down our arms until the occupation forces withdraw from Jordan, Lebanon, Aden, Oman, Algeria and the entire Arab world." In Damascus, the Nasser-controlled newspaper Al Nasr kept up the barrage of hate: "The U.A.R. will be unable to prevent the people of Jordan from battling the loss of their independence after years of martyrdom at the hands of a king who is a deviationist and a traitor and who submerged...
...most of this hate, Egyptian officials hotly complained that half a dozen secret radio stations now "attack President Nasser personally in round-the-clock propaganda assaults.'' Pressed for a sample broadcast from the clandestine stations (located, say the Egyptians, on the French Riviera, in Jordan, Lebanon, British Aden, Cyprus and Kenya), the officials produced the following: "Nasser is a criminal who forcibly became the leader of his country. Nasser's gangs are never successful except in destruction, ruin and bankruptcy. Dear, sweet Jimmy Boy Nasser, a curse be upon you, a plague be upon...
...women from 20 nations, were transferred from the overcrowded freighter to the Italian liner Roma, bound for Europe. Few of Roma's waiters, stewards, cooks and deckhands got more than four hours' sleep in the three days they cared for the survivors before putting them ashore at Aden, where volunteer relief committees had prepared a newly finished hospital and a girls' school to shelter them...
...case of trouble in the Far East, Kenya-based troops will be flown 4,500 miles to Singapore, where equipment will be stockpiled as at Aden. With landing rights in India ended and those in Ceylon scheduled to go in two years, a new refueling base is under construction at Gan in the Maldive Islands. As the R.A.F.'s Transport Command beefs up with new turboprop Bristol Britannias, Britain's scattered garrisons will be stripped and more men concentrated in Kenya...
Last week the British moved on the diplomatic front to secure the two pivots of the new command. Into London, with a jeweled dagger in his belt, flew Seif el Islam Mohammed el Badr, 28-year-old Crown Prince of Yemen, the feudal Arab kingdom that borders on the Aden protectorate. With his aged father ailing, the bearded young prince now rules the country. Last year he negotiated in Moscow for shipments of Soviet arms, but recently has shown signs of nervousness over Soviet penetration. The British hoped to persuade him to help restore peace on the Aden-Yemen border...