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Middle East (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), explain the new U.S. policy for opposing Middle East Communism, and have signed agreements under the U.S.'s emergency $200 million aid program. Hussein, who last week began a purge of Communist and pro-Egyptian elements from Jordan's army, schools and government...
The deal by which three Arab nations -Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia-undertook to replace Jordan's $36 million-a-year British subsidy was proving largely a desert mirage. Syria's first remittance turned out to be not a check but a cheeky receipt-for "services" provided Jordan...
Lest his dirge tend to merge with a purge.
"As I lay on the sheetless bed," Koestler writes The Invisible Writing--"enveloped by gloom and stench, counting the familiar stains on the wall which crushed bed-bugs leave behind, I heard the sound of a gramophone in the next room." It was Hughes, playing Sophie Tucker on his phonograph...
Of course he could never forget the barriers that faced a negro at home; and it made him more tolerant of the Russians, for all their purge trials and liquidations. He said he felt about Communism as Frederick Douglass though of abolition, "Whatever else it might be--it was not...