Word: canal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice Admiral Pierre Barjot, deputy allied commander, was more blunt in acknowl edging the allies' true motive: "Soldiers, sailors and aviators," he declared in an order of the day, "at the moment when you were about to enter as conquerors of the principal city of the Suez Canal, a cease-fire was ordered. But your efforts and your courage have wiped out the affronts...
...morality of his defense of it. It will be the judgment that his policy failed to achieve what it was designed to achieve, and that the cease-fire agreement was the final, inconclusive half-measure of a series of mis calculations. He had taken only half the canal, and Nasser was still in power. The canal was blocked, the Iraq pipeline sabotaged, and Britain faced a winter of cold homes and industrial shutdowns. Not for this should he have risked the good will of Britain's most powerful ally, outraged the Commonwealth, aroused the Arab world to outspoken hostility...
...heed President Eisenhower's advice for a ceasefire. And they came from Anthony Eden, who by telephone from London asked Mollet for a joint cease-fire-and by midnight. Mollet wanted the cease-fire delayed for 36 hours, so that allied forces could take the whole Suez Canal. Eden refused. How about an extra 24 hours? No. Twelve hours? No. Six hours? Impossible, replied Eden. Mollet turned back to his ministers and shrugged: "We can't do anything without the English...
...Brethren." On the Suez issue he was still defiant. "So long as there is a foreign force, one single foreign soldier in Egypt," said he, "we shall not begin repairing the canal and we shall not begin running the canal. Eden will never force us to surrender. Egypt was made to fight, my brethren, we were made to fight. After ten days of fighting, we are all of us one monolithic people...
...Egypt's Suez Canal, which channels 1,200,000 bbls. daily to Europe from Persian Gulf fields, has been completely closed. The hulks of at least 15 vessels (including the dredges and some of the biggest salvage ships), most of them scuttled by the Egyptians, clog the waterway. The El Firdan railway bridge also has collapsed into the canal. Most optimistic estimate for clearing the canal: more than a month. Says one shipping expert: "It all depends on who is going to do the unplugging. If it's a crash program under the Americans, it might take...