Word: cholerae
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...fortnight later Snedaker was deep in the kind of trouble that he-and TLI-have grown used to. This time it was that ancient ravager, cholera. Egypt's efficient efforts to control the epidemic produced a web of anti-cholera regulations which extended to nearby countries. Snedaker felt their effect when the plane carrying the films from which TIME is printed was ordered to avoid Egypt. Substitute films, rushed from the U.S. via London, arrived just two days before issue date...
...that juncture Snedaker's troubles multiplied. The anti-cholera regulations had ruined standard bus, train and plane schedules; service from Egypt to many countries was discontinued. To ship TIME to Beirut, for example, copies had to be moved from Cairo by truck over the desert to Kantara on the Suez Canal, ferried across the Canal and dispatched by train over the Sinai desert to Haifa, passed through troubled Palestine in a private car, over the mountains of Lebanon and along the Mediterranean coast road into Beirut, from which they could be airborne to Middle East subscribers and readers...
Having overcome this and other transportation problems, Snedaker had to meet still another: fear that a magazine from Egypt would transmit the cholera vibrio. To clear up this misapprehension, Egypt's Ministry of Public Health satisfied itself that a cholera vibrio could exist no more than three hours on a diet of TIME - or any other periodical. This fact was duly spread by the Egyptian press, and TIME continued to move over the Egyptian border by special truck - giving the vibrios plenty of time to expire...
...Walter Winchell pulled the first trigger. In a broadcast and syndicated column, he fulminated: "The Third World War is already being fought. . . . We are losing it. ... When the Communists are ready . . . there will be 50 Pearl Harbors . . . atomic explosions erasing our cities. . . . The Communists have germ warfare already. . . . The cholera plague in Egypt is suspected abroad of being a Soviet experiment.*. . . The next countries [the Russians] intend to grab are Italy and France. . . . They need France as a base to attack Great Britain, . . . American diplomats inside the curtain are under Russian guard day & night. . . . Trained Communist spies are among...
...Next day PM's Albert Deutsch asked U.N. World Health Organization officials. Their verdict: "The means of propagating cholera make it absolutely unfit as a weapon of bacterial warfare." The Associated Press reported that Russia was sending anti-cholera serum to Egypt...