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Last week officials in Suez (pop. 49,686) were vigorously stamping out what they hoped was the tail end of a "sharp out break" of bubonic plague...
...Army says the situation need not worry U.S. citizens. U.S. ships usually go through the Canal without stopping at Suez and U.S. soldiers have come un scathed out of worse plague spots than Suez...
...Army & Navy often give injections of an anti-plague vaccine. As this vaccine is not a perfect protection and wears off in six months, the services rely chiefly on powders and sprays to keep off fleas, and their war on rats which is continuous, plague or no plague. In Suez, the rats have resisted stubbornly...
...Lebanon, the tiny Arab state and French Mandate on the Mediterranean's eastern shore, the United Nations came up hard against two complex, trouble-packed problems: the demands of Arab peoples for political freedom, and the clash of Western imperialisms in the strategic region of Suez and the Persian Gulf...
...took half a fully equipped division from Britain to Suez, perhaps saved the Eighth Army and enabled it to come back at El Alamein...