EGYPT'S MIDDLE WAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300050011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 24, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

1NE CQNOMIST
AU G 2 4 1963
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA
i%gypt S IV11a tyc
The Arabs and tie, Wgrld : Nasser's
Arab Nationalist Policy.
By CllarlP, n t'nS.
Frederick Praeger; New York London
Pall Mall Pres 351 ages. 42s.
T leis A scan book real c a. J,ravc.:
1 attc t 31 decide whether President
Nasser, akcs 1}is y between' East
and West, is }cocheting ,from on side .to
the o r as ets,and opportunism?'dictate,
or ~y etl er he rs keeping as-cJose.as.a 'small
po eP, s able' o a, mi dle',courseti t eat he
thought out foor himself,_, ;tr. Cremcans,-
having plumped, o`i.balancc; -for thess and
view, t ?ies to define. what Atpetiil-poky
towardrrt shgbld`be.,,
For several reasons he had- reach hrs.
verdict by a long-;coute, and over obstacles.
As a matter of history, he has to dispose of
the fact that asuccession of western states
men failed to see that Egyptian neutralism
was a logical at 4,tenable doctrine, anti; that
Etian socialism was net. con~tnuniizi He
thengyphas to. acegunt for P;cesideint ,Nasser.'s
mistakes in'Asia aria: Africa often' the` result
of an Egyptian's"'. mistaken'belief that other
nations are as biddable as his own ; Lastly,
he has,to .show the president coping with
the ,d c nas,;ih~ ,confront, him..yvbenc er
his plans for Egypt fail to dovetail wio, 4ab.
unity. To bring President Nasser through
this: jungle and to produce at't'he exit a roan
with a doctrine is something of a feat. " It is
a fiat! achieved - only by the skin of ' Mr
Cremeans's teeth, but. that : is' -less his fault
tha>1 that Qf:thq tangle Arabs,get~into when
they do battle~,unity ill their, hearts and
rivalry in .their minds.
u p h ' tas i taugh for. Yeas } i pper rouna with .a-cheque book and the Sixth
Egyy i } ltas s e ? i the cot i y fro~ nri wit legit =on call until the day he asks for them.
ancf blow, as' well' as froi3a< the.: American a none of this is very* new, but how
Embassy in Cairo, ;ilk w s,_g veal eisuze to: efferent American (andtritish), fortunes
think out his conclusions by, jI on light have been if either den or Dulles.
Forei n Relations, which award im a ad thought these thoughts in'
1954-55
resds eh fellowship' and 'b ' i2iIt a study remcans is i w. onsu fix on Middle
group of some first-class Middle Eastern astern affairs to the' ni
experts to bear on his thinking. Perhaps Jt has hired a level-headed and well!
rliis~procedt =li:in-w~ ~-u ti~h ?. 1 nrmcd-servant.
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many ideas. He is inclined to insert them all, and so to be readable only by tho$e
beady familiar with, his confusing subject.
But his conclusion' is clear, and he spells
t out plain. It is that the Middle East. is
for years o~uncomfortable growing pans
a Y y 'oi all who speak Arabic feel
ies hey~e in fact divided by differ-
Imes of 6aemp5crament, wealth and social
attcin that are not easily lived down.
e o
i
a
us
es
nd crises of confidence ensue.
cone 'resident Nasser -cioti* ies, but
'
of control.
I11 Lu d tes can
iRv better at seeing his point of view,
bei
i
y
ng content to see neural, and
ocialist,, by counting 1 f a'.success if he does
of pass into the. communist camp by
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