Word: canal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read from a typewritten sheet: "Before the Ministers' meeting I offered to Monsieur Coty, President of the Republic, my resignation and that of my government." Reason: he could not go along with the U.S. and British decision to accept Nasser's conditions for using the Suez Canal. Said Mollet bitterly: "If the U.N. must systematically give in to the desires of dictators . . . then it is not an organization worthy of its international character...
...Harold Macmillan, pale and humorless, rose in the House of Commons last week to put an 'official stamp on the greatest British diplomatic reverse since Munich. "Her Majesty's Government," announced the Prime Minister, "can no longer advise British shipowners to refrain from using the Suez Canal." Payment of canal dues, he went on, would be made in sterling-though Egypt's pre-Suez balance of $300 million, which was blocked by the Eden government, would remain frozen. Curtly, Macmillan said: "A much longer view will decide the rights and wrongs. This is not by any means...
Honorable mention went to another Advocate author E. C. Davidson '57, of Winthrop House and Balboa, Canal Zone, for his story "Renascence...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., May 20--France and Britain joined against Soviet opposition today and urged Egypt to negotiate a Suez Canal settlement founded on international confidence...
...Widening of 39 boulevards to speed traffic into the city, and filling the unused New Basin Canal which slowed crosstown traffic...