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Shifting Pressure. Even as the U.S. enacted the doctrine, the U.S. and the U.N. were pressing the step-by-step, inch-by-inch progress toward easement of the Middle East's internal problems. One day Israel got out of Gaza and the Aqaba Gulf positions, and the blue-helmeted soldiers of the U.N. Emergency Force moved in. Another day Syria agreed to start repairing oil pipelines sabotaged during the British-French-Israeli attack on Egypt, through which Iraqi oil can be pumped to Mediterranean ports en route to Europe. Even Nasser's Egypt, still dickering on complexities like...
...read the excitable pronouncements in the kept Cairo press, Egypt is unyielding about everything: gives the U.S. and U.N. no credit for getting Israeli troops out of Egypt (something the Egyptians could not do for themselves), and renews its intransigent attitude about Israeli rights in Gaza, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Suez Canal. The optimistic drew comfort from the fact that Nasser himself had not yet said all these things, and might not be so unreasonable as his noisy propagandists...
Belligerent State. Egypt has not yet decided whether to allow Israeli ships to pass through the canal. In the past Egypt has barred Israeli ships from the canal-and from the Gulf of Aqaba-on grounds of Egypt's continued "state of belligerency" against Israel. Back in 1951 the U.N. Security Council ruled out this claim as incompatible with the 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice...
Nasser last week promised a group of student visitors from Gaza "to win back all Palestine." Diplomats in Cairo believe that Nasser may accept indefinite stationing of U.N. Emergency Force troops to keep peace along the border, but will insist on control over Gaza and the Gulf of Aqaba. Last week John Foster Dulles made plain that the U.S. will not be disposed to release the $50 million in blocked Egyptian funds so long as Nasser shows himself intractable...
...kept trying to say to the Israelis that it understood their demand for guarantees in Gaza and Aqaba and in some ways supported them, but-the Israelis must not expect the U.S. to say so too explicitly. So began a semantic battle requiring a conditioned Israel withdrawal involving what could not be described as conditions. The happy substitute that emerged was the word assumptions. On Feb. 11 John Foster Dulles handed Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban an aide-memoire. As soon as Israel pulled out, Dulles said, the U.S. would 1) itself proclaim the right of innocent passage...