Word: nasserism
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...Walter Ulbricht, goateed leader of the most escaped-from satellite in the Soviet bloc, it was a week of rare triumph. Arriving in Egypt for his first official visit outside the Iron Curtain, the East German President was greeted at the Cairo railroad station by Nasser, a 21-gun salute, 23 non-Western ambassadors and 20,000 students and workers chanting a heartwarming slogan: "America, withdraw your money for Israel or Nasser will step...
There were trips to a textile factory, Luxor and the Aswan High Dam. There was a state banquet at which Ulbricht and Nasser exchanged their countries' highest awards. To Nasser went East Germany's Order of the Grand Golden Star for International Friendship, to Ulbricht went Egypt's Great Collar of the Order of the Nile-and, to Ulbricht's wife Lotte, the Great Collar of the Order of Perfection...
That was about the only sign of perfection along the Nile last week, for Ulbricht was an expensive guest in a febrile situation. Nasser had invited Ulbricht as a way of getting even with West Germany for its secret arms shipments to Israel. When suspension of the shipments failed to head off the visit, Bonn retaliated. Over the past six years Bonn has supplied Egypt with more than $400 million in hard currency loans and development aid, and last week Chancellor Ludwig Erhard canceled all further financial support...
...Nasser claimed that this would hurt German trade more than Egypt and looked for aid elsewhere. A French technical mission is currently touring the country scouting possible projects; Poland has already offered to take up some of the slack; and Ulbricht himself has committed $83 million in East German money...
...Backing Nasser, the 13-member Arab League warned that resumption of the arms shipments would force them to break relations with Bonn and, presumably, recognize the East German regime. Still, Nasser was moving carefully. He withheld full recognition from East Germany, and in a remarkable aside to Ulbricht, he said: "I needn't explain to you the deplorable and painful circumstances surrounding our relations with the Bonn government. We are still doing our utmost to avoid further worsening in the current state of affairs." He also went out of his way to underline Egypt's "radical differences with...