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...west bank of the Suez Canal, from Port Said 90 miles south to Suez, houses the mightiest military base in the Middle East. It is jammed with 37 big military installations-ten fully equipped airfields, docks, dumps, hospitals, radar stations, the world's largest ordnance depot. Building the base took the British 38 years and more than $1.5 billion. This week they will sit down in Cairo and begin negotiations for giving it all up to the Egyptians...
...through his statesmanlike decision last November, at a time when his countrymen were inflamed against the British, that Egypt for the first time recognized the Sudan's right to self-determination. He also withdrew Egypt's paralyzing refusal to negotiate over the Sudan until British forces evacuated Suez...
...fact, an agreement over Suez should be the next beneficial step. Still to be decided is the form of Britain's withdrawal from its Suez Canal Zone base, jampacked with $1 billion worth of forts, barracks, flying fields and radar-and 50,000 troops. The quid for Britain's quo would be Egypt's willingness to join Britain, the U.S., France and Turkey in a Middle East Defense Organization, pledged to the defense, not only of the canal, but of the entire Eastern Mediterranean...
...tried Turkey, hoping to catch the Wiima as she passed through the Dardanelles. But the Turks, whose 4,000-man brigade in Korea has suffered heavy casualties at the hands of the Chinese Reds, could not help either. An international convention guarantees free transit. At Suez it was the same: Britons and Egyptians watched but did nothing as the tanker slipped away. This week, the Wiima was halfway across the Indian Ocean, on course for the China coast. The only remaining chance of stopping her legally lay with Nationalist China's navy, which claims to be blockading the Communist...
...Radwan Baltaji, the leathery little chief of Beirut's harbor pilots. On the second day, Radwan, in his jaunty red tarboosh, breached the raging surf in his tiny pilot boat and maneuvered into the shelter of the British cruiser Kenya, which had raced to the rescue from Suez. Using the cruiser's steel bulk as a floating breakwater, Radwan swerved broadside to the waves and slid into the quiet water in the lee of the wreck. Sixty-three women & children climbed down to safety...