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...Wafd government has been negotiating for nearly two years with London to revise the 1936 treaty, which gives the British bases in the Suez Canal Zone. Currently the negotiations are bogged down. Many Wafd leaders do not actually want the British to withdraw from the Canal Zone because they know that the Egyptian army, miserably beaten by the Israelis three years ago, could never alone defend Egypt. King Farouk himself is known to oppose British evacuation but would never dare admit it in public...
...Wheel. British troops in Egypt are the key to British power in the Middle East. The Suez Canal zone which they protect is still the lifeline of an empire and one of the Western world's prime strategic links with Asia. On it ultimately depends the defense of Greece, Turkey...
...rule the million square miles of the Sudan jointly with Egypt, was signed by El Nahas Pasha himself, and hailed by him as a step toward Egyptian independence. It gave Britain the right to keep naval facilities at Alexandria and Port Said, and to station troops around the Suez Canal; it also repeated Britain's frequent promise to get out eventually. The treaty ended half a century of British rule, which began with Queen Victoria's forces moving in to protect British citizens and British investments. In the 18603 and 18703, Egyptian Khedive Ismail, a gusty, grandiose ruler...
Threatening Hint. Egypt's Foreign Minister, meanwhile, hinted that, unless Britain removed her troops now guarding the Suez Canal and completely quit the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Cairo would denounce the mutual defense pact between Egypt and Britain, which still has five years...
...York, Israel formally called on the U.N. Security Council to end Egypt's blockade of Israeli-bound ships passing through the Suez Canal. Israel charged that the blockade violated the Egyptian-Israeli armistice agreement, the Suez Canal convention and, by preventing Middle East oil from reaching the Haifa refinery (second in the Middle East only to Abadan), endangered Western Europe's oil supply...