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Your July 7 article on the Lebanese rebellion clarifies many points. As an observer who has lived in Lebanon for a long time, I feel that President Chamoun may be ambitious-all politicians are-but he stands for Lebanese independence. Chamoun aligned himself with the West because he knew what his critics were up to, and it was the only way to save his country. We shouldn't blame him now for befriending...
Foster Dulles had in his hand a wire from U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock in Beirut, advising that Lebanon's President Chamoun was urgently requesting U.S. troops. The Dulles brothers outlined the problem: unless the U.S. acted soon, Lebanon would collapse, and quickly. Jordan would follow soon. The U.S. was morally bound to go to the aid of Lebanon, and there was just the faintest chance that a quick movement of troops to Lebanon might bolster whatever resistance there might still be in Iraq. The President's advisers agreed that U.S. intervention would surely reap hot Russian and Nasserian...
...Implication. Again, CIA's Allen Dulles and State's Foster Dulles briefed the meeting. If the U.S. does not act on Chamoun's request now, said the Secretary of State, "our prestige is gone; nobody will take our word again-ever. If we get there first, there might not be Communist intervention." If the U.S. refused to take a stand now, he added, the free world would stand to lose not only the Middle East and nearly three-fourths of the free world's oil reserve, but Africa and even non-Communist Asia...
...spruce and able Ambassador McClintock ran a polished show, still found time to keep trim with push-ups and strolls at the far end of his black poodle's leash. As Lebanon drifted toward civil war, he was credited with recommending the U.S. policy of keeping President Camille Chamoun at polite arm's length until Chamoun put his own political house in order. Iraq changed all that...
...course, had the slightest idea "how long it will last." The marines grimly took over the airport, and on the first night all was quiet. Next morning, when the marines planned to move into Beirut proper, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Robert McClintock plunged into conference with handsome, stubborn President Chamoun, and elusive General Fuad Shehab, 56-year-old chief of Lebanon's armed forces. True to form, Shehab, who had steadfastly refused to commit bis forces to an all-out assault against the pro-Nasser rebels, refused to commit himself firmly to cooperation with the Americans. President Chamoun reproached...