Word: suez
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...Egyptians could gain from control of the Suez is some sovereignty and prestige," he stated. "It's quite possible that Naguib will make a deal with the British." In return for their withdrawal from the Canal, the RAF in this area and the Egyptians would agree to join some Mediterranean military pact, he speculated...
Frye foresees Naguib pulling off a shrewd political deal whereby British troops would leave the Suez Canal. If successful, he could become king and start a new dynastic order...
Frye called the issues of the Suez Canal and the Sudan a political blind and the British a traditional scapegoat" by which attention is diverted from domestic difficulties...
...recapture power. Its big wheels, Mustafa Nahas (ex-Premier) and Serag el Din, used the magic word "purge" to get rid of their rivals, then started plotting to get rid of Naguib. Their plan is to smear Naguib as unpatriotic for failing to throw the British out of Suez and the Sudan. Naguib's counterplan: a stiff electoral reform law, excluding men of "known dishonesty" from political office...
Piloting the Coal Queen, from Morgantown, W. Va. downstream (north) to Pittsburgh, took a little doing, what with pushing barges through the locks and threading through more traffic tonnage than passes through the Panama or Suez Canals. There wasn't much that didn't catch Pilot Bissell's eye, from the architecture (mostly horrendous) of the houses ashore to a little girl in a spring hat on a slate pile. He remembers the valley's favorite drink (cheap rye and a beer chaser), the variety of foreign tongues heard in saloons. "Oh, it's some...