Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SAUDI ARABIA'S brown-robed King Saud, on his way home from Washington, will soon meet in Cairo with Egypt's President Nasser. In the four weeks since Saud and Nasser last met, there has been a perceptible shift of opinion in the Arab world. Though the Eisenhower Doctrine has given all Arab nations evidence of U.S. readiness to protect them, Arab leaders are trending away from Nasser on their own initiative. Beirut's Nahar quoted Saud as saying: "I am convinced that the future of the Arab world must be founded on its friendship with America...
...Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson. "What do you think, Raddy?" Wilson will then invariably ask. Invariably, Radford will produce a written reply, saying, "Here are a few thoughts of my own." And, more often than not, what Arthur Radford thinks will be accepted as the best-reasoned military opinion...
...peace and justice. When Britain and France later had to promise the U.N. to withdraw their invading armies from Egypt, that necessity only increased the anger of what used to be the U.N.'s most respectable 'supporters in those countries. They agreed to bow to the "decent opinion of mankind" as determined by a U.N. vote. But. they asked, did anything happen when Russia defied that "decent opinion" over Hungary, or India defied it over Kashmir...
Counter-Pressure. Any more concessions to Israel at this point would estrange the moderate Arab opinion that the new U.S. Middle East policy is trying to foster. Nasser was already systematically slowing down the work of clearing the Suez Canal. Last week, after U.N. salvage vessels finally raised and towed the cement-filled hulk Akka out of the main channel, the Egyptians continued to dawdle about removing explosives from the wrecked tug Edgar Bonnet, and thus effectively kept the ditch plugged. The U.S., however, was concerned less about Nasser's blackmail than about other Arab opinion...
...four weeks since Saud and Nasser last met, there has been a perceptible shifting of opinion in the Arab world. Most of it is away from Nasser. The sophisticated among Arab politicians now see that, despite his victory claims, Nasser took a humiliating beating in Sinai. Furthermore, Arab business communities are increasingly upset by Nasser's disruption of the oil industry, are aware that he was imperiling all of their economies by his dealings with Russia, and fear that he may still be at it. Significantly, Arab leaders are trending away from Nasser on their own initiative...