Word: nasserism
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...state as other hunters collect heads. In the six years since then, the list has grown: Churchill twice ("He and Pop were very good friends"), Macmillan, Nehru, Japan's Hirohito and China's Chiang Kaishek, Israel's Ben-Gurion and the United Arab Republic's Nasser ("Did Nasser and Ben-Gurion at the same time"). Khrushchev has been such a regular subject for interviews that the Soviet Premier now regards Hearst as "my capitalist-monopolist friend." Hearst is moved to reciprocate. "May the Good Lord and my esteemed father forgive me," he wrote in a prologue...
...Arab world rallied last week behind Gamal Abdel Nasser in his defiance of Communist attacks and joined heartily in his counterblasts, all set off when the Kremlin's propagandists ventured to criticize Nasser's stern repression of Egyptian Communists (TIME, June 16). Said Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Ibrahim Sowail: "We will not abide Soviet attacks on any Arab country and least of all on the U.A.R., our biggest sister." Top officials in Yemen, Morocco and Lebanon took the Soviets to task for being "unfair" to an Arab neighbor. Arab propagandists took up the cudgels in their own fashion...
...most important voice backing Nasser came from Iraq's Major General Abdul Karim Kassem, who, like Nasser, has accepted lavish Soviet aid. Premier Kassem last week fired the entire executive committee of the Iraq Press Association on the vague ground that they were "serving Communism and deriving their inspiration exclusively from Sputniks." Taking over as the new press-association president, pro-Nasser Publisher Al Haj Taha al Fayez rapped out an angry editorial in his daily Al-Fajr al-Jadid: "The sun of the Communists has set. The Communist countries are falling to bits through starvation and ruination...
Russia, which unlike the U.S. still expects to see concrete results from concrete aid, seemed baffled by the storm its criticism of Nasser had set off. The Soviet propaganda machine muted its tone about Nasser and had not a word to say about other Arab voices raised in his support...
Khrushchev could apply an economic squeeze at any time by shutting off aid-but this would turn Nasser even further toward the West. Nasser can justifiably claim to have invented the neutralist gambit of playing East against West and shows no signs of losing his nerve now. Last week delegates from 21 nations gathered in Cairo to plan a big neutralist get-together in September. "We are putting our case before the Asians and Africans," said one official, "so they can see that power politics is practiced by both sides. East as well as West...