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...Britain's right to be in the zone, there is no doubt. Although torn up by the Egyptians in 1951, the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 does not expire until 1956. It might prove more interesting to probe into America's right to occupy the Panama Canal Zone. The State Department's 18-year-belated $25 million compensation to Colombia was surely an admission of Theodore Roosevelt's high-handed methods earlier in the century...
...unity. "The Western powers can gain, rather than lose, from an orderly development of self-government," said the Secretary. He thought the U.S. could act the role of honest broker in the Middle East, e.g., help find a solution that will reconcile "Egyptian sovereignty and international concern" in the Anglo-Egyptian Suez base dispute...
...phone call from Paris, relayed to Eisenhower through Ambassador Henri Bonnet in Washington, France's Premier Mayer said he was about to propose publicly a meeting of France, Britain and the U.S. The French were anxious about Russian designs on Germany in the face of sharp Anglo-American differences (and Mayer was worried about keeping his government afloat-see FOREIGN NEWS). The President sent back word to Mayer that he heartily approved...
Twelve miles away in Tokyo's district court, Britain's Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. tried to block the oil sale. At issue: the question whether the oil, legally purchased from the government of Iran, was actually "stolen" from the British in the expropriation. The British lost the first round of a similar case in Italy in March, when a tribunal in Venice refused to confiscate a cargo of Iranian...
...Cyrenaica, Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons and said: "We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general." Even before he died in 1944, Erwin Rommel had achieved legendary status among his Anglo-Saxon foes. By now he has a safe niche among those defeated military commanders-Lee and Napoleon are outstanding examples-who rise at least equal to their conquerors in the esteem of the military experts. Brigadier Desmond Young's biography, Rommel, the Desert Fox, sold 300,000 copies in Britain...