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...first place, a very broad band of British public opinion was genuinely and deeply angered by Nasser's seizure; any British spokesman using less than strong language would have been accused of not representing the true reaction of the nation.* Secondly, urbane Sir Anthony has a temper grown sharper with the years, and Nasser's act touched off in him a flare of personal contempt for the Egyptian-not the contempt of a loftily bred Yorkshire gentleman for an upstart "wog," but the contempt of an order-loving, word-keeping diplomat for a disorderly, dishonorable dictator...
Nancy Kelly is troubled by these occurrences. When she finds the penmanship medal hidden in Patty's drawer, suspicion grows sharper, and she wrings a confession from Patty in a shattering crossexamination. Nor do the revelations come singly. Nancy has long had doubts about her paternity, and now her middle-class world collapses as she discovers that her own mother was a mass murderer who had fled justice. Even worse, she must face these mountainous horrors alone, since her husband has been called out of town...
...were making things too complicated for him. "The British are too clever," he told a friend. "I think I'll take some time out." The talks were resumed some weeks later. Today Nasser still plays the role of youthful amateur, frank and quickwitted in private conversation, making his sharper points with a disarming, schoolboyish grin. It is one of his most winning techniques. But in fact, Gamal Abdel Nasser has acquired a new opinion of himself...
...that Western friendship for Yugoslavia had been based only on 1) the Soviet Union's conflict with Yugoslavia and 2) the hope that Yugoslavia would return to capitalism. Khrushchev's speech, underlining hostility to the West and stressing the unity of the "Socialist" camp, gave a sharper edge to Tito's prepared address. What Tito had to say, read in faltering Russian, tamely supported Soviet policy on the two Germanys (though Belgrade has not hitherto recognized the East German government), endorsed Soviet disarmament proposals (without guaranty for inspection) and approved Communist China's claims on Formosa...
...Party is far enough to the left to be the chosen instrument of the Communists, and the British cannot quite decide whether he is a prisoner of the Communists or the simple nationalist and follower of Nehru that he professes: to be. In Asian ears his merdeka has a sharper ring...