THE NATION: The Danger of Bluffing

Halfway around the globe from Australia and the problems of Southeast Asia flew U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to land at Washington National Airport—and to find Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir, fresh-flown from the Middle East via Paris, already waiting for him with new and critical problems in her part of the world.

In the inevitable power-positioning that followed Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and from Sharm el Sheikh on the Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt's Dictator Nasser last week moved fast to send in one of his generals to administer Gaza's civil affairs. United Nations Representative Ralph...

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