Word: suez
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...debate, some Congressmen recalled the results of the secret Churchill-Roosevelt agreements at Yalta and Teheran. Some were still smarting from Harry Truman's dispatch of troops to Korea without formally notifying Congress. The House was reminded that Churchill had hinted that the U.S. should send troops to Suez (although both Washington and London have emphatically denied that this implied any agreement...
...Egyptians were at each other's throats; this week both sides are talking calmly of reconciliation, not revenge. The British Foreign Office is ready to go surprisingly far to meet Egypt's "legitimate aspirations." London is prepared to withdraw the 50,000 British troops from the Suez Canal Zone. Condition: Egypt must participate in a Middle Eastern defense pact, jointly sponsored by the U.S., France, Turkey and Britain...
Evacuation of the British army would be gradual until a joint force is ready to guard the Suez Canal. And Britain would like someone like Field Marshal Montgomery to head the combined show. On the Sudan, the other disputed point (Egypt covets it; the British have promised the Sudanese eventual independence), Britain still intends to let the Sudanese decide their own future. But if King Farouk insists on calling himself "King of Egypt and the Sudan" (as he signed himself with the lavish flowers he sent to George VI's funeral), Britain would probably agree-at least...
...blood continued to flow in the Suez area, a sign of dissatisfaction with the course of Egypt's controversy with Britain was King Farouk...
...find a solution that would satisfy Egypt's "legitimate national aspirations" without jeopardizing "the security of the free world." That solution rested on selling Egypt on a Middle East command, in which Egypt, Britain, the U.S., France and Turkey would jointly replace the British as defenders of the Suez Canal. Aly Maher was interested, and guarded hope filled...