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...hotly debated details of the Suez crisis is whether Secretary of State Dulles provoked Egypt's Premier Nasser into seizing the Canal by a too-precipitate cancellation of U.S. funds for Egypt's dream project, the Aswan Dam. There is some evidence that Nasser had decided to nationalize the Canal long before Dulles canceled Aswan. Last week came evidence that Dulles' decision was so precipitate that the U.S. Ambassador in Cairo first learned about it from the newspapers...
...join in solutions, he pressed too hard. In 1953 he threatened an "agonizing 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...
...Washington pundits at the home of the Washington Post and Times Herald's Chalmers Roberts. There he confidentially criticized Dulles, explained that if Britain had not consulted the U.S. about the invasion of Egypt, Dulles had not consulted Britain on canceling the offer to build Egypt's Aswan High Dam. (The facts: Britain got one day's advance warning that the U.S. was considering cancellation; in any event, Britain had long been urging the U.S. to get tough with Nasser.) And in London last week nobody was more surprised than New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Don Cook...
...heel. In the U.N., the Russians had just vetoed the latest effort to force a solution on Egypt. Both British and French were increasingly annoyed at U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. In their view, Dulles had precipitated Nasser's anger by his abrupt decision to end the Aswan dam deal. Furthermore, when Nasser countered by seizing the canal company, Dulles had talked the British and French out of strong measures, and then, as they saw it, reneged on his implied promise to pay for an economic boycott of the canal?leaving Nasser triumphant and unpunished...
...playing East against West to his own advantage; and most important of all--the United States, through its Secretary of State, for conceiving that first tragic step, the Baghdad Pact, which gave the Soviets provocation to send Nasser the arms that unbalanced the Middle East, and for withdrawing the Aswan Dam offer in an insulting manner which provoked drastic Egyptian action. And most tragic, this whole chain of events--beginning with Dulles and ending with Eden--has divided the West and preoccupied world opinion while the Soviets wiped out the new Hungarian government...