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Intolerable Tailtwister. Ever since her spanking defeat by Israel three years ago, Egypt, despite repeated protests, has stopped all vessels moving through the Suez Canal that might be going to Israeli ports. When the Labor government's Foreign Secretary, Herbert Morrison, responding to a Tory question, revealed the details of this incident last week, Commons exploded. Coming on top of Britain's humiliation in Iran, it seemed a tailtwister that the British lion did not have to suffer in silence. Asked the Tories' second-in-command, Anthony Eden: "Is not the real lesson of all this that...
...Prepared quietly to evacuate all British nationals from Iran in case they were attacked. The British East Indies fleet was reported standing by; nearly 100 air transports were ready in the Suez Canal zone: they could carry British troops from Cyprus and Port Said to Abadan in five hours. But, said a Foreign Office spokesman: "There will be no order to fly those troops over unless and until disorder breaks...
Even a landlubber who only goes down to the sea in books knows that the first seamen to board a ship adrift and take her in tow can claim salvage. Last fortnight, in a Gulf of Mexico fog, the Esso oil tanker Greensboro collided with the Esso tanker Suez and caught fire, killing 38 of the Greensboro's 42-man crew. The captain and crew of a rival tanker Virginia, which was nearby, saw a chance to invoke the sea's ancient...
ETHIOPIA, 1935. General Legion: Blockade Italy, shutting off oil. Close the Suez Canal to Italian troop ships. If necessary, bombard Genoa, Naples, Leghorn, Palermo. Captain Truman: Send American troops to Ethiopia. No blockade. No closing of the canal...
Another agreement with Britain, almost completed, provided for improvement and U.S. use of R.A.F. bases protecting Africa: Bengasi and Castel Benito in Libya; Habbaniya and Shaibah in Iraq; airfields around the Suez Canal; Amman in Jordan; Cyprus and Malta in the Mediterranean. With the new bases, a U.S. plane taking off from Cyprus, for example, would have to fly only 1,500 miles to Moscow, 1,000 miles to Baku. The U.S. already held giant Wheelus Field near Tripoli (also being enlarged), and an airbase at Dhahran in Saudi Arabia...