A suave, straight-backed U.S. career ambassador headed secretly across town to Washington National Airport one day last week and flew to Turkey on an urgent mission. Loy Wesley Henderson. 65, the State Department's ace troubleshooter for the Middle East, was off to meet Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes. Iraq's King Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein to hammer together a common policy against the threat of Communist infiltration in Syria (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Before him there echoed strident Syrian cries: "We are positive neutralists! We are at the outer edge of that policydo not force us to go beyond it!" Behind him...