Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britons rebuked U. S. citizens who pointed at Lord Lloyd last week the finger of reproof, by recalling the tactics of President Roosevelt with respect to the Panama Canal, certainly of no more importance to the U. S. than are Suez and the Sudan to Britain...
...benevolent" British Protectorate over Egypt was terminated in 1922 and Egypt declared an "independent sovereign state." None the less Lord Lloyd functions as British High Commissioner to Egypt, and an unobtrusive but efficient British Army of Occupation "protects" such areas of vital interest to Britain as the Suez Canal...
Mlle. Marie Astrée-Luce de Morfontaine is younger and, owning more shares in the Suez Canal than the Rothschilds, even richer than Miss Grier. Tall and gaunt, she has a Giottesque religious intensity and the emotional experience of a child. Hers is the plan to hold an Ecumenical Council and promulgate the divine right of kings as a dogma of the Church...
...hospitality to the Califate Congress, but entertained no credulous hopes that he is likely to become temporal and spiritual overlord of Islam should the Conference indorse his claims. Though the British "protectorate" over Egypt terminated in 1922, Britain will tolerate no uprisings in Egypt which might threaten the Suez Canal -"the route to India...
...American dependencies, the Canal Zone, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Porto Rico have been represented by nine schools. And 24 schools represent nine foreign countries, including Canada, Cuba, England, France, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey...