Word: suez
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...easy solution for Egypt's basic problem: overpopulation. Egypt's people, by doubling their number in the past 50 years, have made the narrow green belt along the Nile one of the most densely populated areas on earth. On the inflammable subject of the Suez Canal, the young officers have frequently sunk to old-style rabble-rousing, only to show a welcome moderation at crucial moments. Naguib and his fellow officers have also shown themselves devout Moslems without creating a theocratic state: Naguib astonished his Arab neighbors by sending greetings to the Egyptian Jews at Passover...
...Egypt. Churchill's misleading propaganda claimed that Egypt by so doing was threatening the security of the whole of the Middle East and endangering the interests of the free world. In no way was this propaganda true, as Egypt is anxious to settle the problem of the Suez Canal in order to be able to concentrate all efforts on carrying out her reform projects...
...people of the Middle East have declared that the defense of the Middle East is their own concern. They are anxious to take the complete responsibility of the defense of this area. They categorically reject any interference from the West . . . We have declared our readiness to maintain the Suez Canal base in perfect shape and therefore accepted to employ British technicians until the time when we shall have sufficient technicians...
...Evacuate the Suez Canal unconditionally...
Middle East. Churchill wants the Commonwealth to commit itself to the wartime defense of Suez, but members could not agree. Nehru and Mohammed Ali, both of whom plan to visit Egyptian Dictator Naguib on their way home from London, thought that, in Nehru's words, "progressive and controlled nationalism in the Middle East must not be thwarted." South Africa, however, worried that Russian land armies might one day storm across the Middle East and sweep through Africa, raising thousands of Mau Mau-style recruits along...