Word: canalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affairs Committee approved the Eisenhower resolution virtually intact by a 24-to-2 vote, moved it toward the House floor, where overwhelming approval is expected. But the committee report also noted that the resolution failed to meet such "basic"' Middle Eastern problems as Arab-Israeli relations, the Suez Canal dilemma, and the handling of Arab refugees. The House, said the committee, should get on with the business of adopting the Eisenhower resolution-and then should receive from the Administration "positive and comprehensive measures for dealing with the fundamental problems of the Middle East...
...swirling passions that have swept the Middle East since Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal Company, Saud has become pivotal just by holding fast to reality. That reality confronts him every time he drives past the flaming gas flares outside Dhahran, where the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co. wells tap fields that are estimated to contain three times as much oil as the whole U.S. Profits from these fields bring Saud a yearly income of $300 million, finance his government, build his palaces and swimming pools, buy him Cadillacs and Convairs. But Saud knows that without...
Then came Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal. Reportedly, Saud got the news in the midst of a state banquet. He rose abruptly and retired to his private chambers-thereby forcing everyone else to leave the table...
Publicly, Saud loyally backed up Nasser's Suez seizure ("I am with Egypt with all I possess," Saud cabled), helped him out by giving him $25 million in dollars in exchange for Egyptian pounds. But privately, Saud told Nasser of his annoyance that he had seized the canal without letting his allies know. The Saud money which used to be so lavishly spent on promoting Nasser's schemes throughout the Middle East suddenly was cut off. When Nasser called for a general Arab strike to protest the Suez conference in London, only Saud declined to participate. Some Egyptians...
Last week, in fact, may have been the time at which, so far as the West is concerned, Egypt's Nasser passed the point of no return. In the U.S., there was less and less inclination to suffer any prolonged niggling over the Suez Canal. "Egypt," said a State Department man in notably undiplomatic language, "is becoming a damned bore." The New York Times put all its outrage into one editorial headline, EGYPT'S HITLER...