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Britain and France reacted last week to Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal with white-lipped anger. The dictator of the Nile had laid hands on Britain's lifeline to the East, and jeopardized Britain's Middle East oil supplies; he was laying a threat to Britain's very existence. The moral outrage at Nasser's action was matched by an acute awareness of a vital interest involved. The British government sent flattops, cruisers and squadrons of jet bombers flying off to the eastern Mediterranean, and at week's end thou sands...
...doing, Dulles indicated to everyone around the board, neutrals, allies and Communists alike, that the U.S. remains unawed by bold Communist boasts of matching the West in economic competition-in particular in the financing and building of the high dam on the Nile. And if neutrals want to dart and barter between the two, this will be a kind of "fearful risk" that they will have to worry about. They can no longer hope to seize the best of both worlds...
Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov reportedly has offered an easy-credit loan to help Egypt build its High Dam on the Nile at Aswan. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser is happy to have a counteroffer to set against the $270 million primary financing proposed by the U.S., Britain and the World Bank. (The Western offer awaits some ironing out of details, and is also stalled by U.S. reconsideration of where Nasser stands since his arms deal with Communist Czechoslovakia.) To get the Russian loan, Nasser would have to mortgage Egypt's all-important cotton crops...
Blue laws have showered down along the banks of the Nile since Lieut. Colonel Gamal Nasser took over Egypt. Not only is prostitution outlawed, but a boy who whistles at or flirts with a girl in public is liable to three months in jail, and taxis leave their inside lights on when a young couple gets in. Hand-kissing is frowned on, and alcohol is banned from official functions...
...Beginning of Reconstruction." Streets were bright with arches, flowers, strings of light and a huge plywood figure of a fedayeen commando loomed high over the sidewalks. Loudspeakers blared patriotic music to the" milling crowds in the Cairo streets, and at night fireworks arched high over the dark Nile...