Word: fawzi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first question before the Security Council was: What is Egypt's mood on the Suez question, hard or malleable? Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, whose ability as a diplomat is best described by the fact that he has held top jobs under both King Farouk and President Nasser, leaned over the horseshoe table and started to talk. First, bald Mahmoud Fawzi recited in his soft voice Egypt's familiar grievances against the French and British. Then he purred: "Foremost in importance [is] a system of cooperation between the Egyptian authority operating the Suez canal and the users...
...response to this obvious invitation, the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles made the next conciliatory move. "The essence," he said, "if ... we are to seek justice, is that the operation of this international utility shall be insulated from the politics of any nation." By his manner, Fawzi intimated his assent; it was obviously time to head off Security Council action on an Anglo-French proposal to condemn Egypt for its canal seizure and explore what Fawzi meant by "cooperation." Fawzi agreed to meet privately with Britain's Selwyn Lloyd and France's Christian Pineau in U.N. Secretary...
...Words, Just Words." For three days, usually with Hammarskjold just listening, the three foreign ministers talked in the skyscraper suite. The Westerners felt that they were getting Fawzi to concede little. "Words, just words," blurted discouraged Christian Pineau on leaving one session. Said another diplomat: "Fawzi is conducting a striptease, but so far he hasn't shown an inch of skin." At night Hammarskjold sat up late sifting comments of the bargainers and reducing them to essentials...
...Russia's new Foreign Minister left Cairo, he shook hands with Egyptian Foreign Minister Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi, asked: "How long does it take to become a good diplomat?" Replied Fawzi: "I don't think you need any lessons...
...Egypt, Bell was the first reporter to flatly identify Nasser as the driving force in Egypt's new regime. Cabled Bell: "When the British sit down with the Egyptians for the Suez evacuation talks, they will find the key man isn't Mohammed Naguib or Foreign Minister Fawzi. Instead, the big gun will be Gamal Nasser . . . Have interesting biography and anecdotes on Nasser, who is about due recognition for what...