Word: suez
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...Suez, their demands have caught fire at a time when Western opinion has decisively rejected old-fashioned imperialism, and when France herself lacks the power, and possibly the will, to extinguish revolt by force of arms...
Cyprus, a strategically situated island in the eastern Mediterranean, is a place that has been denied even the long-term hope of independence. The British, anxious to strengthen it as a Middle Eastern base now that Suez has gone, fortnight ago classified Cyprus as one of those parts of their empire which will never be allowed to go free. Last week the British-run government of the island, getting specific, forbade Cypriot agitation for Enosis (union) with Greece. Henceforth, Enosis agitation on Cyprus will be punished as seditious...
...Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, the 36-year-old soldier-revolutionary who is Premier of Egypt. He had achieved what Egyptians had been trying to do for over 70 years: get Britain's troops off their country's soil. London had at last agreed to evacuate its mighty Suez Canal base. "Now I am worthy of my uniform," exulted Nasser's close friend, General Abdel Hakim Amer, commander of Egypt's army...
...Britain must remove all 83,000 of its troops from Suez within 20 months. ¶Britain may, for seven years, continue to use the vast storehouses and machine shops to outfit and maintain its Middle East forces. But during this time the Suez base must be staffed not by the military but by civilian technicians, under a private contractor. ¶Britain's troops may return to Suez and reactivate the entire base if any of the eight Arab League states or Turkey is attacked...
...good news had spread, wave after wave of shouting crowds spilled into Cairo's streets carrying banners hailing Egypt's revolution and its leader, Colonel Nasser. Not everybody was happy: survivors of the corrupt, once-powerful Wafd party put out pamphlets denouncing the terms of the Suez "compromise." But in Cairo's exultation, the dissension was hardly heard; most Egyptians seemed convinced that Nasser had done well by the nation...