AMERICAN-AID TO EGYPT IN THE 1950S - FROM HOPE TO HOSTILITY

This article provides insights into worsening US-Egyptian relations in the mid-1950s from the perspective of the Egyptian foreign ministry. It portrays the frustrations Egyptians experienced in their efforts to win large-scale US assistance, and it offers new insights into the me thods the Eisenhower Administration used first to win Egyptian friends hip and later to contain Jamal 'Abd al-Nasir.