Word: nasserism
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...months ago, in his first recognition that Communist agitation threatened him, Nasser had jailed 100-odd Syrian Communists, and received a warning blast from Nikita Khrushchev himself that it was "wrong" and "naive" to "accuse Communists of helping to weaken and divide" the Arab nationalist movement...
Last week, with Tito at his side as he addressed an anniversary crowd in Cairo's tented Republic Square, Nasser announced in a two-hour speech that he had sent a personal letter to Khrushchev complaining about Communist skulduggery in Syria. He had just received Khrushchev's reply: Russia would stay out of "U.A.R. internal affairs" and "continue sincerely to support your struggle despite our ideological differences...
...expropriation at his own low tax valuation of $2,800,000. Egypt's $87 million for expropriated lands is already earmarked for other British claimants; furthermore, Smouha's solicitors were pressing a market-value claim of $30 million. Britain faced the prospect of having to pay for Nasser's single biggest expropriation of British landholdings out of its own resources. "Hoodwinked in a deal that had all the elements of the Middle East bazaar business," gasped London's News Chronicle...
...Egyptian-British settlement in the first place (TIME, Jan. 19). Black agreed to return to Cairo to try "to remove the remaining points of conflict" without which Her Majesty's government-in the spirit of Palmerston, if not his manner-will not sign the agreement with Nasser...
...doing), important enough to be a vice president of CBS. But within two years he had abandoned his desk and paper-shuffling, and by 1951 was spending most of his energy on See It Now, the high-cost (up to $100,000 per show) documentary which, on subjects from Nasser to segregation, came as close as TV ever had to imaginative journalism...