Word: canals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand up against Communist pressure. Nasser himself seemed wholly unimpressed by the conciliatory moves the U.S. has recently made towards him-releasing $26 million in blocked funds, reviving the CARE relief program in Egypt, resuming the $13.5 million U.S.-Egyptian rural improvement service, leasing dredges for the Suez Canal. His press remains pathologically hostile to the U.S. But Nasser told Columnist Joseph Alsop last week: "Now is the time to normalize relations between my country...
...speaking of the mass all right. The mass of brainless idiots who can't draw their way out of a canal and think they can teach...
...within a relatively short period has been glossed over. The other points are similarly distorted or exaggerated, and it is surprising that not one word has been said about what is possibly the most serious economic problem faced at present by the country: the threat to continued supply of canal waters irrigating millions of acres of fertile land in an excellent irrigation system...
Short War, Long War. On relations with India over the question of Kashmir and canal waters, he was equally inflexible: "We will endeavor to get a satisfactory solution through peaceful means. If we have to resort to extreme measures the responsibility will be that of India." Did he mean war? Answered Ayub Khan softly: "Yes, certainly, even though it would destroy both countries." Clutching his neck in both hands, he added: "If someone is doing this to you, what would you do? Lie back...
This, as every listener to Cairo's Voice of the Arabs knows, is the same high dam that the U.S. proposed, then refused to underwrite before Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. The news went over big in the Middle East. A pro-Western Beirut newspaper cried approvingly: "The Soviet Union has taken the place of the West on the banks of the Nile to help Nasser at long last to build the Pyramid of the 20th century...