Word: anglo-egyptian
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...Theory. While the Air Force goes about its map making, Astronomer George Van Biesbroeck will be busy at Khartoum in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, checking up on Einstein's theory. During the three minutes of total eclipse, he will aim his telescope at the faint star field ordinarily blotted out by the sun's brilliance...
Schlesinger will discuss the post-war tensions in the Middle East, with special reference to the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over the Suez Canal and the role of the United States in the present situation...
Farouk was already styling himself King of Egypt and the Sudan. By abrogating the treaty with Britain, Egypt claimed to have ended the 52-year-old joint Anglo-Egyptian rule over the Sudan. The Sudanese, most of whose leaders seek independence-from both Britain and Egypt -wanted no part of Egypt's action. Last week Britain's new Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden promised the 8,000,000 Sudanese that by the end of 1952 they would be allowed to decide whether they wanted to be free or join Egypt. The British didn't really believe the Sudanese...
...last week, ugly anti-British riots flared up in Egypt. The Egyptian government had started it by abrogating the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian treaty under which Britain is permitted to garrison the Suez Canal Zone. Parliament, by unanimous vote, told the British to get out. And by the same vote, Egypt announced its intention to rule the Sudan alone, which Britain and Egypt have jointly administered since 1899. Fired by the brave deeds of Parliament, Cairo mobs howled: "Give us arms. Where are the arms?" Egypt's bloodthirsty Moslem Brotherhood vowed to "knock at the doors of heaven with...
...breaks out in spots when exposed to Egypt's hot sunshine, never ventures outside without a protecting umbrella and gloves). His single-minded policy since his appointment last year: use every means-if necessary, threaten appeals to Russia-to get rid of those British and grab the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. To him, the Suez is dust in the enemy's eye; since Egypt depends for its life on the waters of the Nile, his real object is the river's headwaters in the Sudan...