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 methods the Eisenhower Administration used first to win Egyptian friendship and later to contain Jamal 'Abd al-Nasir.