Disaster over Suez and Sinai -- Dulles and the Middle East -- A loan refused : the Canal seized -- Dulles's first crunch over Suez -- Dulles studies the forces -- Dulles's finest hour -- and strange default -- Dulles's solution fails in Cairo -- The poisoned apple : the User's Club -- Eden vanquished -- SCUA collapses -- The Allied rift widens -- The United Nations fails -- Collusion brings a hot war -- Dulles impeaches his allies -- Dulles yields to Russia -- Dulles sanctions his allies -- Israel resists the "Double Law" -- Summing up : Suez and beyond in American foreign policy.