Word: canalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think it is moral suasion, no." Broadcast three days later, Dillon's recorded remarks stirred pro-Americans in Egypt, who were afraid that apparent U.S. sponsorship of the phony Moscow-did-it line might harm U.S. prestige just when that prestige was needed to get the Suez Canal running again. In Washington the State Department quickly announced that Dillon "was expressing his personal views in answer to a question"; privately State's exasperated spokesmen predicted that Soviet propaganda would make much of Dillon's blunder...
...Foster Dulles, showing little effect of his recent cancer operation, arrived, talking generally of economic aid to see Europe through the oil crisis, and of "burying past discords." In private conferences, first with Pineau, then with Lloyd. Dulles assured them of U.S. backing for quick clearance of the Suez Canal. At the opening session Dulles lectured the assembled ministers like a Presbyterian elder, pointing out that morality is the real binding force of the Western alliance. With pointed reference to Britain and France, he said that maintenance of moral pressure was a vital factor in bringing about the disintegration...
...recited what might be called the second set of reasons for Britain's intervention in Egypt: it brought about the creation of a U.'N. force, and exposed Russian intentions in the Middle East. Set No. i-Britain intervened to separate the combatants and protect the canal-has not been popular for some time. Concluded Eden: "I am more convinced than I have been about anything in my political life that what we have done is right . . . and history will prove...
Eden faced greater trouble than his manner suggested. The drama of Suez, which had roused patriotic support for him, was over. Now Britain faced the bleak penalties of the blocked canal, which were making their dragging weight felt in every British home and factory. Three influential journals-the Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Economist-greeted his return by wondering, almost with one voice, whether Eden was up to his job. Wrote the Daily Telegraph, the most Tory of them all: "The strain will become greater, not less. If Sir Anthony can bear it, and give the leadership for which...
...Egypt was to clear the canal. Arriving in Cairo with 19 other experts under U.N. auspices, Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler, U.S.A. (ret.) drew up plans to turn over the job to a consortium of three U.S., Danish and Dutch firms. When the British and French protested at exclusion of the 18-ship salvage fleet that was already at work raising wrecks at Port Said, General Wheeler cautiously suggested that six of Britain's salvage ships might be used-without their British crews. This was too much for First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Hailsham who huffed that Wheeler...