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While the U.S. was enjoying its peaceful, prosperous summer, two facts came clear about Communist diplomacy 1957. These were that 1) the Russians, pouring arms into Syria and ships into the Mediterranean, were back at their old oft-frustrated game of trying to get a foothold in the Middle East; and 2) they wanted no part of effective disarmament, a point proved when they turned down the West's latest and most moderate disarmament proposals-and instead brandished their first test-model intercontinental ballistic missile...
Syria. Dulles put the current diplomatic point and counterpoint about Syria into proper perspective by recalling Russia's failures in persistent attempts to dominate the strategic, oil-rich Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. In 1940 the Communists went after a spheres-of-influence deal with Ally Adolf Hitler that would give them control "in the general direction of the Persian Gulf"; in 1945-46 the Communists prolonged their wartime occupation of Azerbaijan in northern Iran, were forced out by U.N. pressure; between 1946 and 1949 the Communists sparked the Greek civil war, saw it fizzle out; in 1955 they...
...elaborately publicized succession, President Eisenhower proclaimed U.S. "anxiety" over the Syrian situation, U.S. fleet units churned up a show of force in Eastern Mediterranean waters, and U.S. Air Force C124 Globemasters wheeled over Amman in a display delivery of U.S. 106-mm. antitank rifles to Jordan's army. Instead of persuading other Arab countries that the Arab nationalists of Syria were a threat to them, the U.S. display offended them and drove Syria's neighbors to proclaim their solidarity with their Arab brothers. Within 24 hours every U.S. ally in the Arab world had rallied to Syria...
...call "the French presence" in Algeria. Conceived by Napoleon III and completed under the supervision of Marshal Louis Lyautey, greatest of France's North African proconsuls, the Colomb-Béchar-Ain-Sefra line is the southernmost portion of a railroad that runs all the way from the Mediterranean port of Oran to the rim of the Sahara...
...RICH IRAN plans to build a 620-mile pipeline to carry between 140,000 and 190,000 bbl. a day from its rich Qum field (TIME, May 6) to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun. Idea appeals to Western oilmen because new line would avoid Redlining Syria. But Iran must raise $500 million for the job, and may hold back if Western nations work out plan to build their own line around Syria...