Word: canal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firm control of his country, and on a recent trip to Moscow ably defended his country's membership in the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact. Americans help train the army, advise many government departments. Iran usually sides with the Arabs, but disliked Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal Company...
...relying for nearly 90% of his revenues on oil from the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co.'s fields. A Nasser ally, he has fought with British over control of neighboring oil sheikdoms. Saud fears that recently Nasser has gone too far, thinks his nationalizing the canal has endangered the King's oil profits. Violently anti-Israeli, Saud is obviously disturbed by Egypt's poor military performance against Israel, also dislikes Nasser's playing with the Russians...
...Anthony Eden's summary action in Egypt had already cost his nation from ?35 million to ?50 million. It had put the Suez Canal itself out of operation for perhaps six months, and reduced Britain's supply of vital Middle Eastern oil to a trickle. Valuable dollar reserves must be spent to buy oil elsewhere. "Whatever happens," said Harold Macmillan, "it is quite clear that there must be-I do not wish either to minimize it or exaggerate it -that there will be, a serious temporary effect upon our economy...
...keep the present "precarious alliance" of the free world together with "the deepest understanding and sympathy . . . We believe that unilateral action is dangerous and to be avoided, but let us face honestly, for example, what the United States would be tempted to do if our interest in the Panama Canal Zone were threatened." Christians must pray "for the men who have the decisions to make, for the people who will pay for these decisions with their lives . . . Pray regularly; pray with all your heart...
...report reached Port Said that the Egyptians were sending a hospital train to the front to evacuate wounded, Shim and Roy hustled to shoot the scene. With Roy at the wheel, they raced south toward the front line along a road flanked on one side by the Suez Canal, on the other by a fresh-water canal. The front was unmarked. British paratroopers, dug in along the side of the road, saw the jeep coming and tried to wave it down. It roared by. Some 1,000 yards down the road, it shot past an Egyptian outpost. Then the luck...