The Suez question has been rather in abeyance during the
past week. The Users' Association, it is true, has appointed its administrative officers, the chief of whom is a Dane, but the present Western view is that it is up to Egypt to put forward some new suggestions before any more discussion can take place, and the Egyptian that as far as they are concerned enough has been said. The Indians continue to hope that they can turn the Association into something like the 'advisory body' of their original plan, but their chances of success have not been improved by the discovery by the French authorities of an Egyptian yacht carrying arms to the Algerian rebels and the subsequent withdrawal of the French Ambassador to Cairo. The Algerian problem has also provoked a quarrel between the French Government and the Sultan of Morocco, who has been receiving Algerian rebel leaders. Elections in Jordan have resulted in victories for the anti-Western element, but they were less sweeping than had been feared. The election in America is rapidly reaching its climax with the President still heavily backed to win. The Russian attempt to embarrass him by supporting Mr. Stevenson's call for the suspension of H-bomb tests seems to have boomeranged badly, since the Republicans can now make the most of anti-Red feelings to discredit their opponents.
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