Kammala wannan jumla: A watan Nuwamba na 1956, Dulles ya yi tsayayya da mamayewar Anglo-Faransa na yankin Suez Canal don amsawa
Ƙasar Masar ta mallaki tashar. A cikin kwanaki mafi mahimmanci, an kwantar da Dulles a asibiti bayan tiyata kuma bai shiga cikin yanke shawara na gwamnatin Amurka ba. A shekara ta 1958 ya zama mai adawa da shugaban kasar Masar Gamal Abdel Nasser kuma ya hana gwamnatin Nasser ta karbi makamai daga Amurka. Wannan manufar ta baiwa Tarayyar Soviet damar samun tasiri a Masar.