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...Mob protests against the search led in turn to a telephone call relayed from Britain's sorely tried Suez Commander in Chief Sir George Erskine to Egyptian Interior Minister Serag el Din. General Erskine's demand: the Egyptian police must hand over their weapons and evacuate the Canal Zone. Otherwise, warned the British commander, Ismailia's police headquarters would be "destroyed by force." Serag el Din turned the ultimatum down cold and ordered his policemen to "resist to the last bullet...
Premier Nahas Pasha's vacillating government, alternately blowing hot & cold on its people's incendiary nationalism, declared a state of emergency and met behind closed doors, to discuss ways of quenching the fires they had nurtured. A mob of university students, joined by many of the police sent out to control them, marched into the capital to de mand revenge for the dead and an immediate declaration of war against Britain. "The cabinet will decide tomorrow,"' a government minister told them. "Today! Today!" cried the mob...
...quite sound like a man eager to renew friendship with Britain. Yet London and Washington regarded his appointment, and Farouk's decisiveness in making it, as a turn for the better. Trying to negotiate with a strong man could be difficult, but trying to negotiate with a mob is impossible...
...workers of the Communists' own union. At Mateur, railhead for the French naval base city of Bizerte, a crowd of 2,000 angry demonstrators surged out of the yellow-walled native district to storm police headquarters. For 45 minutes, the French held firm, refusing to fire as the mob swarmed over their tanks, smashing ports and prying open the turrets. "I'm going to fire," a young tank captain shouted to his commanding officer. "I can no longer be responsible for the safety of my men." The commander at last relented. "Allez-y," he cried. The automatic rifles...
...speak either Korean or Chinese. Said one officer to TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Dwight Martin: "If we want to question a prisoner, we have to keep him isolated until we're through with him. If we return him to the compound, he'll slip off in the mob and change his name." Said another: "We could have Mao Tse-tung and Kim II Sung both in the same compound and never know...