Word: suez
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...Austria forever in the Reich; 5) return of German colonies within 25 years; 6) formation of a Danubian Federation bossed by Germany and Italy; 7) guarantee of the Balkan status quo; 8) Germany's remaining Jews to migrate; 9) no trade barriers; 10) free passage of the Suez beginning in 1945; 11) Tunisia...
...making peace, the Welles interview was no sooner over than doubly inspired stories popped in the press-twice as extravagant as Ribbentrop's demands, more grandiose than the Kaiser's dream of the drive to the East, a tumultuous welter of claims, charges, accusations; demands for Suez, Gibraltar, Singapore; denunciations of British naval bases as pirate hideouts; insistence that Germany could no more tolerate Britain in Southeast Europe than the U. S. could tolerate an enemy seizure of the Panama Canal; demands that Britain give up its financial power-in short, an end of Britain's power...
Last week, the 23rd of World War II and the eleventh of its elaboration in Finland, a gigantic slushy stalemate persisted on the Western Front; a third contingent of Canadian troops arrived in England and the first Australian and New Zealand divisions landed at Suez; desultory sea sniping was continued by Germany on Allied and neutral shipping (see col. 3); and in Paris, the Allied Supreme War Council held its fifth full-dress meeting...
...which the Germans had gone too low, the Russians too high, Paris admitted that France has 275,000 men under arms in the Near East. London admitted that Great Britain has 500,000 men there-and then tried to suppress the figure. The Australians and New Zealanders landing at Suez were reported to number 30,000, volunteers all. Further attention was drawn to this troop pool by the arrival in Cairo, Egypt of its commander, fox-smart little General Maxime Weygand, to join Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Britain's Near East commander, in reviewing an Anglo-Egyptian...
...zone in any part of the high seas where the Germans or the English choose to make a threat. If this policy were followed, soon we would hardly dare to run a boat from New York to Savannah. But the Mediterranean is a different matter. Flanked by suez and Gibraltar, it rests well under the British thumb, and so is a natural operating area for German U-boats. This stretch of water is bound to bring trouble to any neutral who dabbles in it, and none that gets out of it could be accused of over-cautiousness, America, having...