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...highly questionable whether an effective force could be amalgamated from the other U.N. countries, especially when it is considered that the Egyptian affair, has already drained off a large part of the available manpower. Furthermore, some of the nations that saw a responsibility to send troops to Suez might not construe such an obligation for Hungary. If a weak army were sent into Hungary and was shortly defeated, considerable pressure might be put on the larger Western allies to bail it out, and if they did so the East-West conflict would explode...
...prudent step, a necessary step and one that deserves unqualified support from the nation." The chest-beating tabloid Daily Sketch (circ. 1,123,855) shrilled: "Stop the sniveling and close the ranks." But misgivings ran like chills through responsible Tory papers that staunchly upheld the government when the Suez crisis broke in July...
...needs and more than half of West ern Europe's. But tankers are in the shortest supply ever. Sending them around the Cape of Good Hope instead of through the canal would lengthen the Persian Gulf-Rotterdam round trip from 44 to 71 days. Experts estimated that the Suez closing would require the addition of at least 144 tankers just to handle the substitute oil shipments from the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. has 34 in reserve. Last week the U.S. took six of the T25 out of mothballs, put them on sale, ordered another seven made ready. Whatever...
...concern over oil remained. The Middle East had been shipping 2,000,000 bbls. daily to Western Europe, 1,200,000 by tanker through the Suez Canal, the other 800,000 bbls. via pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, where tankers picked it up. Another 300,000 bbls. daily had been going from the Mideast...
...publicity puts it-the episodes of Exodus transpired. In the flats back of Cairo, DeMille built the biggest movie set in history, a 60-acre mockup of the traditional "treasure city" of Per-Rameses that probably constituted the biggest piece of construction work undertaken in Egypt since the Suez Canal. For one scene alone, the beginnings of the Exodus, he used more than 20,000 extras -at least twice as many people, according to the generally accepted estimate, as were involved in the actual historical event...