Word: suez
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...Time to Act. But when the Arab defenses collapsed and the Egyptians were forced by Israeli strength to make an armistice in 1949, Moslem resentment smoldered, later flamed up. "Liberation guerrillas" attacked the British, by then withdrawn to the Suez Canal zone. Then they cut loose in Cairo, where they burned bars, restaurants, movie houses (all sinful in Moslem eyes) and hotels frequented by foreigners. Farouk's wobbly government began to cave in and a state of emergency was declared...
...fight off the Russians. Even at that early day, Disraeli's great opponent Gladstone urged that Cyprus be given to Greece. Britain formally offered it to Greece during World War I, as an inducement to get Greece into the war, but the Greeks refused. Now, having withdrawn from Suez, Britain has made Cyprus her eastern Mediterranean bastion. The British will never leave, said Britain's Colonial Secretary a year ago. (Never is a word British diplomats are never supposed...
...than they do with their rulers in distant Great Britain. Bearded Archbishop Makarios has been leading an agitation for enosis (union) with Greece. The 100,000 Turks on the isle prefer British to Greek rule. As for the British, who have made Cyprus their Middle East bastion since evacuating Suez, Churchill's government last year announced that Britain would never leave Cyprus...
...Marshal Stalin then said, 'Suppose Egypt raised the question of the return of the Suez Canal...
...windowpane, the Finnish tanker Aruba crawled along the charted sea lanes. The world paid little attention as she made her way down from the Rumanian port of Constanta to the Mediterranean and eastward toward Port Said. Then, three weeks ago, like hundreds of other vessels that pass through the Suez Canal, the 10,000-ton Aruba was forced to declare her cargo and destination. It proved to be 13,000 tons of high-grade kerosene consigned to Red China, enough jet plane fuel to carry Communist airmen on an estimated 5,000 jet missions. The world became suddenly interested...