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AMONG the world's great waterways the mighty Mississippi, Germany's strategic Kiel Canal, the vital Panama and troubled Suez are all familiar names. But one waterway with more importance than fame is a muddy, undramatic complex of barge canals and shallow channels rambling 1,116 miles around the U.S. Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas to St. Marks, Fla. It is the Intracoastal Waterway, tying the entire Gulf Coast area into the nation's vast, 28,000-mile system of waterways. For Southerners it is a chief reason for the greatest boom in Gulf Coast history...
Even if Nasser can continue to run the canal efficiently, the principle of international control should not be put aside. The right to nationalize, of course, is legally accepted. But a question which seems inherent in Western statements is whether nationalization of a waterway so important to so many nations should ever come under the unquestioned rule of one nation. Egypt's blockade of Israeli ships long before nationalization was ever considered proves that nations will not refrain from using territorial control over a waterway as a tool of national policy. When Dulles stated that the canal should be isolated...
...Suez Canal crisis six weeks ago, the U.S. has been the patient, quieting influence, calming those in Britain and France who talked of force. It was U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who mustered 18 maritime nations behind a mild U.S. plan to put the key waterway under a form of international supervision while acknowledging Egypt's ownership. Dulles sent the State Department's ace Middle East troubleshooter, Loy Henderson, to Cairo on a five-nation committee "to present and explain" the U.S. plan to Egypt's President Nasser...
...awareness that the canal is also his country's road to market. At week's end one Asian delegate asserted that, of the half-dozen Asian representatives he had talked to, all but Menon had expressed "horror" at the idea of Egypt holding supreme control of the waterway...
...very long ago, Western leaders (and even Israel's) saluted him as a genuine, responsible leader at last in the Middle East, a young man whose forceful vision might yet bring tranquillity where there was chaos. Today, having seized control of the world's most important waterway, he is defiantly whipping up Arab hatred to drive the Western powers from the Middle East. Said one Western expert: "We thought we were dealing with a kitten. In fact it was a leopard...