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...into the Suez Canal last week plowed the 9,424-ton freighter Katoomba, bound for Marseilles with a distinguished prisoner. Sixty-six-year-old Abd el-Krim, who had brilliantly led Berbers and Arabs against Spaniards and Frenchmen in the Riff country of Morocco a generation ago, was exchanging the 21-year exile of Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean, for the milder exile of a villa on the French Riviera. Or so the French Government expected. Instead, when the Katoomba reached Port Said, Abd el-Krim, now portly and grey of beard, walked ashore and placed himself...
...World v. the U.S. "We ask that the United Nations face the problem of security not piecemeal but on a worldwide basis. This means the internationalization of the Dardanelles, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal. It means world disarmament and world control of atomic energy...
...ownership. The proposers of this delicious plan are basing their case on the poor showing of the M.C.C. team in Australia. They declare that our failure in the test matches will have grievous repercussions on our prestige throughout the world and particularly with those cricket-playing races east of Suez, which already have suspicions that the Mother Country is decadent...
...pilgrim port of Suez a shocked policeman had arrested a girl for walking arm in arm with a man not her husband...
Paul de Lesseps, 63-year-old son of the famed Suez Canal builder, was down with heart trouble and a sense of persecution in Fresnes Prison. The French Government said that Prisoner de Lesseps, who owned land in Turkey, had offered to sell it to the Germr 3, for bases from which to bomb Suez. De Lesseps' reply: the Government owed him five billion francs for land confiscated in World War I, now condemned him "to avoid paying...