Word: canal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soviet tanks were out in the streets again. But the Soviet soldiers, Asian faces from faraway Mongolia and Kirghizstan, seemed utterly confused. Some asked whether the river Raba, which runs through Gyor, was "really the Suez Canal." At Kobanyia a Russian officer "sold" his tank to rebels for 44 Ibs. of bread. One reason the Soviet Union was not hitting harder may have been provided by a report that 5,000 to 6,000 disarmed and untrusted Soviet soldiers were being held in a camp at Satoraljaujhely. Other refugees reported 200 to 300 Russian deserters fighting on the side...
Early one morning last week a Swissair DC-6B set down ten miles from the Suez Canal city of Ismailia. Out of the plane, looking slightly airsick, trooped 45 apple-cheeked young Danish soldiers wearing sky-blue helmet liners and arm bands. Falling them in, 30-year-old 1st Lieut. Axel Bojsen marched his men past a hangar, gutted by British bombers, up to an Egyptian brigadier. "On behalf of the Egyptian armed forces," intoned the brigadier, "I welcome you as guests, as troops of the United Nations Emergency Force...
...behaving like a victor. "Today." bragged Cairo's government-backed Al Gumhuria, "it is Egypt that will dictate terms." The Anglo-French forces, insisted the Egyptian dictator, must leave Egypt immediately-and as soon as they had gone, the U.N. police force must also get out of the Canal Zone and confine itself to patrolling the old 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice line. As for the Suez question, said Nasser, not until British and French forces left Egypt could the Egyptian government even agree to permit any steps toward reopening of the canal to navigation. Hammarskjold was prepared to treat...
...give in too much to Nasser was to ire the British and French, who are unhappily halted in a narrow peninsula at Port Said and along a soo-yard strip running halfway down the canal. Despite the fact that the U.N. cease-fire resolution called for the immediate departure of all foreign troops from Egyptian soil, the British insist that they cannot remove their forces until there is either: 1) a general settlement of Middle Eastern problems, including airtight protection against Egyptian interference with Suez traffic, or 2) an "adequate" (i.e., division-size) U.N. force based in the Canal Zone...
Both officers expressed hope that the present situation would convince Nasser that Israel cannot be tampered with. They hoped that peace would be the final resultant of the action, and that Israel would gain the right to use the Suez Canal. Col Nizan pointed out that Israel has no deep hatred of the Arabs, and that the two peoples can and must learn to live peacefully together...