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When, early in the week, Saudi Arabia's King Saud offered to mediate the Turkish-Syrian quarrel, Syria's ailing President Shukri el Kuwatly grabbed at the offer. "We accept your effort with all satisfaction," he said. In the U.N. the other Arab nations, anxious to forestall further Russian meddling in the Middle East, privately urged the Syrians to accept Saud's good offices. (The sole exception: Egypt, whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser regards Saud as a dangerous rival for leadership of the Arab world.) Then the word from Moscow-"An effort to evade U.N. debate...
Counterattack. At week's end, having successfully sabotaged Saud's attempt at mediation, the Russians had the Syrian issue back before the U.N. Assembly, where they hoped to extract a maximum of propaganda mileage from their charges against Turkey. But in one of his best speeches, U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge launched a biting counterattack that left Gromyko sulking in his chair...
...beautifying Mrs. Eisenhower, the new coat raises once again the thorny problem of whether public officials and their families should accept large gifts. Beaver is not quite Democratic mink in spite of the latest advertising ploy, but the present administration has also been embarrassed by the generosity of King Saud of Arabia. One aide accepted an automobile from the monarch, and there are many daggers, watches and other golden mementos waiting to be distributed. In addition, Senator Wayne Morse has been unkind enough to nag the President about gifts of livestock and a tractor for his Gettysburg homestead...
DAMASCUS, Oct. 23--Syria today formally rejected King Saud's mediation offer and accused the U.S. Navy of sending planes deep over Syria...
Sentiments for delaying debate grew quickly among non-Communist delegations after U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge welcomed the efforts by King Saud to mediate the crisis and appealed to Syria to match "the good faith" of Turkey by agreeing to take part in mediation talks...