Word: canales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's protectorate over Aden in southern Arabia. Greece called for self-determination for British-held Cyprus (in the hope that it would go Greek). Guatemala wanted Britain to give up British Honduras to Guatemala. Egypt kept up her demand for British withdrawal from the Suez Canal and the Sudan. All the Arab states demanded an end to French rule of Morocco, even though the General Assembly's General Committee had voted against bringing up the subject in this session. When the Arabs persisted in discussing it, French Delegate Léon Pignon and his aides walked...
...wasn't that kind of child's play in the Suez Canal zone city of Ismailia. There a fight broke out in front of Egyptian police headquarters. Four British army officers, seven Egyptian cops and four civilians were killed. After order was restored, a truce was arranged: the Egyptians agreed to disarm their police, the British promised to evacuate the military families from Ismailia as quickly as possible. Both sides seemed eager to avoid trouble. The women were clearing out; it was unwise to be out after dark or to go off limits; a clap of the hands...
Three college students are appointed to this Commission each year and Schwartzberg will serve on it until June. The group is now considering a report on "Narrow Waterways and Strategic Bases"--and one of the major topics is the Suez Canal...
Nobody else seemed to, either. Having said that the British were through in the Suez Canal Zone, Nahas Pasha's government was both too weak to force them out and too scared of its own aroused people to talk sensible compromise...
...violence had subsided in Egypt's fight with Britain-and her allies-over control of the Suez Canal and the Sudan. Though they had stood by a fortnight ago while Egyptian mobs demonstrated and rioted in the streets, Egyptian leaders/last week issued a firm ban on mass demonstrations, and ordered police to enforce it. Thousands tested the ban in Alexandria and Cairo, coursing through the streets and breaking into shops. Police dispersed them with clubs, tear gas and gunfire. A mob descended on the Russian legation to cheer the Soviet.Union, but the cops also broke that up. Workers...