Word: canalizes
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Filling a vacancy on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Canal Zone), President Eisenhower last week tapped a New Orleans corporation lawyer whose facility at law helped Ike clinch the 1952 Republican nomination. To the Senate for confirmation he sent the name of John Minor Wisdom, 51, Louisiana's Republican national committeeman. A lifetime Republican but no politician until 1951, Lawyer Wisdom (specialty: antitrust legislation) recruited Louisiana Republicans and Democrats alike for Ike, saw a delegation packed with Taft supporters picked for the convention. Carrying his battle to Chicago, Wisdom argued credentials...
...letter of the law. The fact was that Hammarskjold had always insisted that both sides must comply with the 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice agreement, and Nasser had only exercised his right under that agreement to administer Gaza (although he justifies his exclusion of Israeli shipping from the Suez Canal on the grounds that there is in fact no armistice and he is still entitled to exercise a belligerent's rights...
...painful confirmation to those, like Canada's Mike Pearson, who had argued that the U.N. should spell out what it asked of Nasser while there were still levers to use on him, instead of waiting until the U.N. had given him his territory back and cleared his canal. At week's end, going a little further, Cairo announced that Nasser had decided to deny passage to Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and that his Saudi Arabian allies, who control the Gulf of Aqaba's southeastern shore, were determined to bar any assertion of Israeli shipping rights...
...order to get large-scale operation under way again, Nasser might permit an international board of overseers, composed chiefly of neutral nations, to supervise the payment of creditors, and to see that the canal is maintained and improved...
...that a satisfactory settlement will be established. What is needed to balm the egos on both sides as well as providing efficient administration is an international control board that will leave legal sovereignty with Nasser, but will prevent him from backing out on his financial obligations or restricting canal use. Because of his eagerness to get the money, the Egyptian dictator would probably allow a genuinely neutral control board so long as he gets revenues and can point to Suez as Egypt's property...