DULLES'S RECORD IN THE MIDDLE EAST: SOME SIGNAL SUCCESSES, MORE FAILURES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600340026-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: March 10, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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By MARQUIS, w; Cllitl S
A Washington Cortespoi dept:.~t thii-
Post-Dlspato6.'. ? ;` ~ , ,_
(Co -rlrt,t.last, rvlaa~?1 ea,tatt ). , -;a
2 (RG 1-1 T _S TON,. Burch 9.
in his fifth yeisr in the relf defgat
ing office of Secrete, State,.
John Foatei Ditllee`has bees for mans`
months- trying to cI41fl the-_Vd on,a .
That 'olcano'it `the Middle Eost where
! the dark and brooding patons- rellgtous,-
eeonoptic,` political--of the";Arab-Israeli
dispute have produced several?,lI.mited,
wark and threaten ~ constantly, to generate a large war. It ils the, area 'where r for
reaaons.somplex?far beyond the complerc-
ity of Dulles's personality,*American ,pol-
'ley 'bits':uffered the greatest reverses of
the past four ;ye rs
What' may now be in prospect in ',the
Middle_ East, If `r'`e`rlaln hopeful signs are
not deceptive, issa:'uneasy;truce enforced'
by 'a.'United `Naiiohi'?:Emergency: Foree.
The lava` In'the;valcapo will,' temporarily
at least, Cease 'to ?,flow,` The' pillar, , of
smoke ;will' subside and In the relatively';1
quiet ir)tervai;the task: of;peacemaking cap
be started ' a task calling for ,years of pa- `a
tient 'effort ?. r F 1 ' r
Dullcs's principal function as Secretary
of State has been to hold the lid`on one
boiling situation after. another Ito that At would not foam 'over ;in open war, The
bloody conflict in-'Korea was ended and
the Communist,and''the anti-Communist
rmies face each other, across an uneasy
truce line. Similarly In Indochina, an un-
certain truce keeps, the two forces apart.
In Berlin, they confront each other against
the background of the explosive potential
of the rebellious satellites. These are all
lido held precarlously in place.
0,.001
TLI.UMAS X. Pall.
'?""?~'s~t't-?~7.^ thaw `.41f -the
'?> pJitcd; and'Riebard Dud.
.'A,11!abingtan correspondent of
.thud jAt lreidX off ata e, ly~ll -
rtala`ie- osdfn4ey s_ehs to toffihese
'restltss a ='6n to Obtain a corn.
prehlbove picture, of the Political,
:economic and military aspects of the,
The reports presented here are the,
first of a serfas which will discuss
the problems of t ie'Middle East and
their relation' to diplomatic morns by.
the United States 1Q pff,Et.tm, at`
of l"omatunist tntiltratlo
Marquis 'W. Childs,. a'Washington
correspondent of the Poit.Dfzpatch, ,
& followed -closely the"efforts of
8eietetary of State John 'Poster Dulles
to contain 'the. Communist threat. th"?
the,strategic Middle Eagt,and ves
his,appraisalrof,t4te measureofauo-
e .that Dulles has
a l ~
ttoa' pfays Its. Rose. ,*,
??E ,wiiter8
.,..:....VW1QU0R=;u
66 -1-0 detablialtina itself at trr.. "
Wrist wUl be subject to Moscow bl icbnait
the srlotivatlona, that du t ri t .^w
... g be 'pa ast tw
aiding lp still another uneasy truce.
Started By Israeli Raid.
,Thq cycle, for reasons of konvenlence
,
can be dated from Feb. 28, 1955; when
it resulted In 69 E ?aIY
_ Option and 20 Israeli
ew. of the State Department it made it
ore difficult lo, come to any understand.
stn in its most acute form. Some would
tier's "Mein Kempf" as ^n exposition
1Rs was directing `negotiations' with
sser over arms for `Egypt. ' This had
h earlier--on Dec. 10, 1952-when
cash reimbursable ;military assistance',
eement under'the Mutual Defense Act
1948. An legyptian military mission;'
cveral attempts were trade to work
an arms deal alter July of 1954, when
-British, signed an agreement to leave
Suez babe. But nothing came of these.
orts, which went, on through the end
June, 1955, when the Egyptian govern-
put a brake on; any ,arms deal witil''
chalrmanahipa'made It plain that an',
of r'agement of Egyptian' cdtton export
id get the State Department In trouble
years ago. Nasser has since said the
United States sought to Impose condi
on direct military assistance and tha
t was being asked to join an "al
he proposed grant military assistant
In no sense an alliance," the Stat
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