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...appearances considerable sweetness had been restored to Great Bitter Lake (midway along the Suez Canal) when Franklin Roosevelt aboard his warship successively received King Faronk, Emperor Haile Selassie and King Ibn Saud. The nature of the sweetness, according to a White House announcement...
Journey's end, 800 miles and two days from Jidda, was a crossroad of empires-Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal. There, aboard a U.S. cruiser, the President of the U.S. awaited the King of Saudi Arabia...
...Director? There was also the problem of the Suez Canal. Like Egypt, King Farouk was still making political payments on a predecessor's sins. The world was indebted to them too. For 75 years ago Khedive Ismail Pasha had defrayed the costs of his irrepressible gallantries by selling a European company the right to construct and operate the canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Great Britain (militarily) and France (administratively) controlled the canal. If not exactly friends, these powers had become old familiars with whom Egypt could quarrel cozily whenever it became necessary to assert her dignity...
Breathing Spell. In Paris, shivering cinemactors quit work for a while on a film about the Suez Canal, explained that because of the coal shortage their vaporized breath ruined all illusion of the tropics...
...they were not aware that, in the cold-blooded language of politics, the Balkans had become a Russian sphere of influence. As such, it undid the work of a hundred years of British statecraft, and made Russia a Mediterranean power-poised massively above the artery of Empire at Suez. The area of decision for the eastern Mediterranean had been snatched from the British lion by the blacksmith's boy from Klanjec...