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...will was still there-in Britain, France and (as long as the method chosen was peaceful) in the U.S. But the way was not clear. Search as they might, the legal beagles of Downing Street, Quai d'Orsay and Foggy Bottom could find no legal challenge to Nasser's nationalization of what was in fact an Egyptian company. What they challenged firmly was the way Nasser did it-precipitantly, without negotiation-and why he did it: "To arouse Arab nationalism...
...Suez Canal, his dire prophecy of an Arab empire stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic, his incitement to Algerians to rise up against the French-all these were summonses to the diplomats of Foggy Bottom and their opposite numbers in Whitehall and the Quai d'Orsay to consider, consult...
...nerves cistern." Among them, this unlikely crew make Taurum Topic A all over the globe. The Moslem Brotherhood warns that "Israeli plotters [are] at the bottom of the whole thing," the Russians claim they invented the precious gold dust 30 years ago, and a Quai d'Orsay spokesman begs the Americans to "consider the effect of their decision upon the soul of France...
...Khrushchev that France could not be split off from the Atlantic alliance. But he made no secret of his ambition to take home some achievement to match Mendès-France's, with whom he anticipates a political battle next year. He was impatient with Quai d'Orsay experts. "I use modern formulas that do not correspond to diplomatic traditions," he said expansively. He added privately: "What do my people in the Jura [his home district] know about NATO? But if I tell them that we can build irrigation canals for their vineyards with the money...
...relaxed manner and self-confidence. Once, referring to Stalin (six months after Stalin's death). Bulganin remarked casually: "He messed everything up." To one veteran U.S. observer, Bulganin seems "reasonable, intelligent and able." "He talks freely about delicate problems," said a Dispatch to the Quai d'Orsay. "He is a master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension." Recently, before deciding to go himself to Geneva, Khrushchev remarked at a garden party: "I trust Bulganin. No one has to hover at his elbow...