Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offer, it is t best a stopgap measure--a piece of undeserved candy with which to coax a precocious Egypt back into the Western fold. Russia has won a diplomatic victory by forcing the U.S., as the saying goes, either to "put up or shut up" over the Egyptian dam project...
...peace and security of the Middle East were indeed menaced last week-not in Iran, but in Egypt. The first shipment of Communist arms (mostly small-caliber weapons) reached Cairo from Czechoslovakia. Emerging from the Egyptian foreign office, where he is a frequent and welcome visitor these days, Soviet Ambassador Daniel Solod urbanely told newsmen that the Communists now hope to extend their new relationship into all phases of Middle Eastern life. Said he: "Soviet foreign policy ... is to develop relations ... in political, economic and cultural fields." Solod confirmed reports that Russia had offered to build Egypt's High...
...Czechoslovakia against Israel's purchase of Mystère IV jets from France. Nasser insisted that the Czech trade was strictly "a one-shot deal," and no Communist technicians would accompany the arms. The Westerners were only partly reassured; the British tartly reminded Nasser that the 1954 Anglo-Egyptian pact calls for the reactivation by Britain of Suez Canal air bases in the event of an attack on Turkey, i.e., on NATO. Said a British diplomat: "We don't want to find MIGs on those airfields...
...that Nasser needs are tanks, jet planes, heavy artillery and a few naval craft. Czechoslovakia's famed Skoda armament works, now named for Lenin and controlled by the Soviet army, is well equipped to supply most of the arms. But to make effective use of Czech weapons, the Egyptian army will be obliged to set up a maintenance supply line running back to Prague, and, therefore, to Moscow. Thus Russia can secure a linn and influential hold on an area hitherto dominated by the West...
...twice the size of Egypt's (pop. 22.5 million) is a constant source of humiliation to Nasser's military junta. It enables Israel to move in and out of the demilitarized border zone of El Auja with impunity, as it did last week, and it gives (to Egyptian ears) an intolerable acidity to Premier-designate Ben-Gurion's statement on the eve of Yom Kippur: "I hope Egypt won't be foolish enough to try to blockade the Gulf of Aqaba against us. We can beat them...