Like so many functionaries sidling from a throne room, murmuring polite words of undying admiration and fealty, the Arab nations were backing away from their once-feared leader, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
In Lebanon, pro-Nasser candidates met a humiliating defeat at the hands of the pro-Western forces of President Camille Chamoun and his Prime Minister Sami Solh (see below). The day had passed when word from Cairo could bring mobs into the streets of Beirut and make governments quail. Instead. Lebanon felt confident enough to brusquely deport the bureau chief of Nasser's...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
