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With Due Deference. The Peking meeting was an undisguised personal reverse that could only strengthen the position of the men in Moscow who had regarded his Mideast summit policy as rash and unsound. The Russian censors even let pass an A.P. dispatch suggesting that Khrushchev's stature had been diminished in Moscow...
...pity there are not more people like him at the helms of government." Florida's LeRoy Collins saw the results as reflecting "overwhelming resentment" against federal troops; North Carolina's Luther Hodges said they were a measure of the "intensity of feeling" against Ike's dispatch of troops. Virginia's J. Lindsay Almond Jr., who may soon decide for law or violence in communities (at least three, one pending) facing school-integration orders effective next month, wired: "You have my cordial good wishes...
...general, most of the world seemed to regard the coup d'état in Iraq as a genuine national uprising, and to deplore the dispatch of British and American troops to the Middle East. But there were some sober second thoughts, and subtle shadings. Even in Gamal Abdel Nasser's world, the realization dawned that the Russians had talked big but stayed away. And here and there, a world usually divided arbitrarily into West, East and neutral reacted in much less predictable fashion. Items...
...were open. So far as any outsider could tell, many Iraqis welcomed the coup and almost all accepted it. Yet it was only a handful of plotters who changed the history of Iraq. Later intelligence suggests that they acted earlier than they had intended, worried by Nuri's dispatch of one of the crucial colonels to Jordan...
Britain: Laborites in the House of Commons cried "shame" at word of the U.S. landings, but Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell rejected the demands of leftist Laborites for a Commons vote on the issue of British support. Two days later, when Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced the dispatch of British paratroopers to Jordan, Labor again demanded a vote, and left itself wide open for a shrewd riposte by Macmillan: "If it is not right to vote against America, why is it right to vote against Britain?" The censure of British intervention was defeated...