The Morning After - A Study of Independence

London: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 299 pages; Clean and secure in original red cloth binding in very good dustjacket with a short closed tear at top and bottom edge of front panel (now in protective mylar cover). FFEP bear the previous owner's signature "K. Roosevelt" Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Crozier's book "Looks at the reality behind the magic words - independence, Uhuru, Merdeka, Doc Lap and other variants - which sustained so many rebels and revolutionaries in their struggle for their countries' freedom. And it finds that in many cases the independence that was wone is not really independence, that national sovereignty has brought demagogues to power and ushered in declining living standards besides the treasured seat in the U.N. ... men like Abdel Nasser, Sekou Toure, Prince Sihanouk, Tunku Abdul Rahman, ... who are determined to break with the West, even if it brings poverty to their peoples..." ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related .