Word: pro-western
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...layout of the paper, which he affectionately called "my baby." He made young (28) Editor Bechir Ben Yahmed his first Minister of Information, backed him when Yahmed allowed foreign journalists to see the defects as well as the achievements of the new regime. L'Action supported the stoutly pro-Western Bourguiba in his opposition to Nasser. But as time went on, it began to criticize the long delay in providing a new constitution, urged new elections to replace the present Constituent Assembly, which is composed only of members approved by Bourguiba's own ironically named Neo-Destour...
Laos will remain "neutral" but pro-Western under Phoui's ministry. The great danger is that it will also remain corrupt, inefficiently run and economically chaotic; e.g., in 1956 the tiny country exported goods valued at $3,000,000, imported goods worth $31 million. If so, the Communists under Prince Souphanouvong will be heard from again...
Your cover story on Nasser shows again that your evaluation of a man's policy and character doesn't rest on the integrity of this policy but on how harmful or helpful the man is to the West. Every so-called pro-Western government in this area has proved to be undesirable to the people. The fact is that the people are sick of being ruled by agents who care more about their own security and the interests of the American State Department than the welfare of their country. Nasser is nobody's tool...
Trouble was that European enthusiasm found few echoes among the Arabs themselves; they might not have found much to resent, but still they would not cheer. Lebanon's usually pro-Western Al-Jarida complained that Ike had not addressed himself to "the basic problem of the Arab world"-Israel. The most hopeful thing a New York Times correspondent could find to say about Egyptian press comment was that it was "only slightly abusive...
Throughout this area last week there was a rapid reshuffling of positions. The reason: Cambodia's Premier, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, suddenly abandoned his "active" (i.e., pro-Western) neutrality and recognized Red China. Sihanouk visited Red China two years ago and appeared impressed with China's totalitarian "vigor." But he was not stampeded into recognition then. Last month, Sihanouk wrote cogently in the American quarterly Foreign Affairs that "a prince and a former king must be well aware that the first concern of the Communists is to get rid of the king and the natural elite of any country...