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The Failure Of United States Foreign Policy In Egypt 1953-1956, Patrick Bruce Lowrey
The Failure Of United States Foreign Policy In Egypt 1953-1956, Patrick Bruce Lowrey
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In 1953 the incoming Eisenhower administration deemed the Middle East region to be of strategic value. Egypt was viewed as an integral part of the administration's containment policy in the region directed at the Soviet Union. A major effort was made by Eisenhower and Dulles to court. the newly emerging leadership of Egypt with economic inducements and military equipment. By the fall of 1956 this policy had failed in its primary objective of keeping Soviet influence out of the region. Eisenhower and Dulles feared Egypt was in danger of becoming a client state of the Soviet Union; and, their policy …