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...obviously the place where he hoped that it would produce the most effect."The ruling circles c-f the U.S.," he told Timesman Reston, ".are virtually pushing Tur key against Syria. Turkey is even laying bare parts of her frontier with the Soviet Union ... I tell Dulles and [Ambassador Loy] Henderson that it is easy to start a war but far more difficult to stop...
Back from the edge of left-sliding Syria flew Loy Wesley Henderson, 65, ace State Department troubleshooter for the Middle East and respected advocate of a worldwide hard anti-Communist line. "The situation in Syria (see FOREIGN NEWS) is serious," said he at Washington National Airport. "In fact, I would say extremely serious. It might deeply affect the security of the whole free world." He handed a dozen pages of memoranda to a senior State Department official, headed downtown for long hours of talks with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
...Communism's interior weakness, was setting forth upon some showy new adventures. The Communists have proclaimed a test-model 3,500-mile missile, tested nuclear weapons, broken off months-old disarmament talks in London, sent light cruisers into the Mediterranean, shipped obsolete arms into Syria. Loy Henderson's specific point was that the Russians are so persistently brandishing the threat of force before impressionable Arabs that the U.S. has to convince the Arabs that the U.S. also packs atomic hardware, and if it should come to it, the U.S. also means...
...week's end, after a two-hour conference with Dwight Eisenhower and Loy Henderson, John Foster Dulles read out a statement, quoting the President, specifically warning Syria not to commit aggression or engage in "subversive activities directed toward the overthrow of the duly constituted governments" of her Arab neighbors. If Syria does this, warned the President of the U.S., she will face the military-economic force of the Eisenhower Doctrine...
...military intervention against Syria," proclaimed Communist Peking, and added that the U.S. intends "to isolate Egypt by forming a Mediterranean alliance consisting of a number of North African states, with Spain as its center." Actually, U.S. plans were considerably less grand than that. Washington's Middle East Expert Loy Henderson had been sent off to consult with Arab rulers and the Turks largely because the Turks, in particular, thought that the U.S. was taking too complacent an attitude about Syria. The U.S. is intent on staying in the background and keeping an Arab label on any anti-Syrian moves...