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...pro-Western Lebanon, newspapers were quick to praise the unity move. In Jordan, where rabidly Arab-nationalist Palestinians comprise two-thirds of the population, wily Strongman Samir Rifai publicly proclaimed: "We support every effort to achieve this sort of union," then dashed for Saudi Arabia to urge King Saud to meet with Jordan's King Hussein and Iraq's King Feisal to form a counter-federation of the three kingdoms. Feisal was willing, but Saud...
Twenty-two months ago, "Banda" led a coalition of socialists to power in the land of star sapphires, tea terraces, umbrella-shaped shrines, and the world's most luxuriant greenery. In the process, he all but destroyed the island's only pro-Western party, the United National Party of Sir John Kotelawala. Today the chief opposition party is Trotskyite, and headed by a rabble-rousing double doctor (philosophy, science) of the University of London...
...altruist. Advancing $563 million in arms and economic aid to the Arab nationalists of Syria and Egypt, he cried: "Is Nasser a Communist? Certainly not. But nevertheless we support Nasser. We have only one objective, that the peoples be freed from colonial dependence." Last week Pravda offered the pro-Western Arab states of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq "ready Soviet Union cooperation in economic development," if they too would accept "the same [i.e., neutralist] principles" as Syria and Egypt...
...visit lay back in official Washington. He had met with Secretary Dulles five times, discussed Algeria and Middle East questions, as well as the need for new agreements on U.S. bases in Morocco. John Foster Dulles assured the monarch that the U.S. was willing to cooperate fully with pro-Western Morocco, expressed a readiness to step up economic and military aid. For his part, Mohammed V had shown where his heart lies: his personal gift to the President of the U.S. was a jewel-encrusted saber inscribed with a passage from the Koran: "The triumph comes from...
Veto Power? Among Dulles' grittiest pre-Paris problems is France's anger at the U.S. and Britain for sending arms to pro-Western Tunisia a fortnight ago. With French rancor so strong that it threatened to stuff up the atmosphere at the Paris meeting, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew to Washington last week and talked over with Dulles ways and means of keeping Western arms delivered to Tunisia from getting into the hands of rebels in neighboring Algeria...