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...obstructions in the Suez Canal, the Egyptians were sure that the hardest to remove would be the cement-laden Akka, which they sank midway in the canal, and the tangled wreckage of the Firdan bridge, which they dynamited and then accused the Anglo-French of having destroyed from the air. In 2½ days last week two powerful German lifting craft and a pair of tugs cleared a passage past the dynamited bridge with so little apparent difficulty that a disquieted Egyptian army officer watching from the bank remarked: "By Allah, we did not expect them to work that fast...
...have turned out to be major. Many are barges or fishing vessels so small that salvage vessels can haul them away in a few hours. One mighty heave by the two big lifting vessels pulled away half of the Firdan bridge, which was one of the eleven major obstructions. Anglo-French salvage vessels have all but cleared away a third at Port Said. Last week U.N. salvage ships, including British and French vessels now finishing their job in Port Said under the U.N. flag, pulled out three smaller wrecks and tied into half a dozen more. The LST Akka remains...
...their beachhead near the place they came to call Vera Cruz. The notion persists that the Spanish conquest of the New World was a cruel and disgraceful business. Two new books may do something to destroy what Salvador de Madariaga has called "an article of faith" in the Anglo-Saxon world-"that Spain means cruelty and oppression...
Speaking to an overflow crowd of about 1400 in Sanders Theatre, Gaitskell stressed the need for increased Anglo-American cooperation in this area of the world. He conceded that it might be necessary "for the United States to proceed without close and obvious cooperation with Britain and France," but asked for some consultation now with a gradual increase in the future...
While criticizing Anglo-French intervention in the Suez, Gaitskell insisted that it was only a "temporary affair, an aberration," which represented no return to colonialism. He pointed to independence granted to British colonies and dominions since the war, and efforts in that direction by France, as evidence that the two European powers were no longer pursuing colonialsim...