Word: suez
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That monstrous doctrine would destroy Belgium and cripple France. It involves internationalization of the Suez Canal, as frankly avowed by the Naval League champions, so that German submarines might make use of it also in war. It means that the military control of the Panama Canal would be given over to Germany...
...spend much time over the sea voyage. Of course we had a couple of submarine scares in the Mediterranean, but sailing with no lights and over a zig-zag course with occasional lifeboat drills lost most of its excitement soon after we left Marseilles. The soldiers along the Suez Canal and the other signs of war, really the most interesting sights on the trip, I can't describe very well on account of censorship rules...
...difficulties that the United States faced when it took up the problem of building the canal were many and great. The French had made a failure of the undertaking, and De Lesseps, the French engineer who so successfully superintended the building of the Suez Canal, had been obliged to give up in despair. The location of the canal once decided upon, engineers were a long time determining the kind of a canal to be built. The lock type was finally adopted for many reasons, one of the most important of which was the presence of the Charges river, which with...