Word: canal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard to understand why we have treated Nasser so gently. He ought to pay the entire cost of clearing the canal...
...already the pent-up tide of trade had rushed past the diplomats. Last week the unofficial boycott which several Western governments had managed to maintain against the reopened canal crumbled under shipowners' pressure. The first British ship since last October's invasion-the freighter West Breeze with a cargo of peanuts from Hong Kong-went through the canal and paid its dues in Swiss francs (Nasser has not yet consented to accept either French or British currencies). The ship was chartered by a Hong Kong firm doing business with Red China; nonetheless the flag that fluttered from...
...ship, the 9,277-ton cargo liner President Jackson, is due to pass through, and two U.S. oil companies notified the State Department that their tankers would soon follow. In line with U.S. policy as clarified by President Eisenhower last week-shippers should "be prudent" in using the canal, but "I don't believe we have told them they shouldn't use it"-the Jackson will pay its dues "under protest...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 26--The United States today accepted Egypt's new Suez Canal plan on a trial basis but six other members of the U.N. Security Council said an international agreement is needed...
...document says Egypt will run the canal, collect all tolls, grant freedom of navigation "within the limits" of the 1888 Constantinople Convention on that subject, and be guided in disputes by arbitration or the World Court. The U.N. Security Council will discuss the document tomorrow...