THE MIDDLE EAST
Sir,-In his Lookout talk, January 19, Mr. L. F. Rudd said Mr Dulles had made it clear that there was no room for the co-operation of Britain and France in the Eisenhower Plan. Cable news reported that Mr. Dulles, admitting Britain and France had not been consulted, also said: "I cannot think of anything that would more surely turn the area over to international Communism than for us to go there hand in hand with Britain and France." This is a startlingly fatuous declaration. It means that two important allies are thrown overboard by the United States in an attempt to curry favour with an Egyptian Hitler who is no more trustworthy than the German one. Nasser has published in black and white his dream of being head of an Arab bloc in power, sitting pretty at the "cross-roads | of the world,’ with Muslims exercising "power without limit." He has brazenly and for long defied the United Nations and got away with it. And his strewing of some fifty ships to block the canal (when a tenth of that would have done the job) is an example of either blind stupidity or wilful aggression. A series of relatively toothless generalisations, plus a plan to use a mixture of bribery and threat, are a poor substitute for a three-power agreement and declared policy for the Middle East. The United States, Britain and France hand in hand, is a combination far more likely to check or prevent Soviet aggression, than a solo adventure by the United States which is not different in motive from that of Britain and France, viz., the protection of interests. ' Some of the pressure being put on Israel should be applied to Nasser to compel him to pledge unqualified freedom of navigation through the canal. Any policy that leaves the canal under Egyptian sovereignty or control means a continuance of trouble. Egypt should not be allowed to use it as a weapon in an anti-Jewish vendetta. It should be placed under an international authority,
administering it independently of Egypt while giving Egypt its due share of income therefrom.
J. MALTON
MURRAY
(Oamaru).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 913, 8 February 1957, Page 5
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