INTRIGUE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

Focuses on the disagreement among three nations of the Atlantic Pact, the U.S., Great Britain and France, on the nature of Western military alliance for states of the Mediterranean region. Disagreement among the three countries on the peace-time role each should play in that region; Reports that the primary opposition to Turkey came from Great Britain; Reaction of France and Great Britain to the emergence of the U.S. as a major Mediterranean power; Extension of moral support to Syrian and French nationalists at the end of World War II by Great Britain to dominate the Mediterranean region; Impact of the Western big-power intrigues in the Mediterranean area on the North Atlantic Pact.