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Above all there remained Algeria. De Gaulle's high-flown rhetoric about Algeria had at one and the same time encouraged both the right-wing French "ultras" in Algeria and Arab leaders like Tunisian Pre mier Habib Bourguiba. Now it would have to be translated into plans and actions. De Gaulle's promised trip to Algeria would probably do more to reassure the 500,000 French troops there, who in De Gaulle's words had been "scandalized by the absence of true authority," than it would please the ultras, who may find his proposed solution for Algeria...
...large and astute coup for the Russians, in effect enabling them to leapfrog the northern-tier defense (Turkey, Iraq, Iran) just set up by the West. It promised to be an embarrassment to the West, but to neighboring Israel it threatened to be a disaster. Israel's Pre mier Moshe Sharett rushed to Paris and then to Geneva to try to get help from the Western foreign ministers. He told them that his people were so wrought up over the Egyptian deal that they were seriously thinking of launching a preventive war ("I hope to God that Israel will...
...biggest bomb shell of news to rock the nation since Communist Tito broke' with Communist Stalin in 1948, the Yugoslav foreign of fice announced the advent of another set of visiting dignitaries. Due in Belgrade within a fortnight are Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev (his name came first), Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin, Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan, and a passel of lesser Communist sherpas...
...been elected with the votes of the Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists, and the belated, reluctant support of Pre mier Mario Scelba's Christian Democrats, talked grandly about "the start of my mandate." His mandate, he hinted, was that Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists should be brought into the government...
Fortunately, there were a few cool-headed men on both sides. One was Pre mier Sharett, who, when he was Foreign Minister, attacked Ben-Gurion for condoning the Kibya massacre (TIME, Oct. 26). Another was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's Arab Legion. Glubb offered two Bedouin trackers to assist the blood hounds, and Sharett accepted them. The joint posse worked together for two days until the murderers' spoor petered out in sun-baked rock two miles from Jordan...