Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canal city of Ismailia. Out of the plane, looking slightly airsick, trooped 45 apple-cheeked young Danish soldiers wearing sky-blue helmet liners and arm bands. Falling them in, 30-year-old 1st Lieut. Axel Bojsen marched his men past a hangar, gutted by British bombers, up to an Egyptian brigadier. "On behalf of the Egyptian armed forces," intoned the brigadier, "I welcome you as guests, as troops of the United Nations Emergency Force...
After effectively banishing God from the story of Moses, deMille fills His place with all manner of things. Foremost among them is the much-vaunted deMille "magnificence." To be sure, much of the spectacle, including the reconstruction of an entire Egyptian city and sweeping shots of the Hebrews crossing the Red Sea between towering walls of water, is quite impressive. But spectacle of this kind is a species of theatrical trickery that, on the whole, detracts from what the picture ought to be doing-exploring a peoples' relationship with their God. And then, too, it expresses the childish assumption that...
...good taste-which is open to question-the fact remains that it is dramatically unsound. While Charlton Heston, who plays Moses, and Anne Baxter, the princess, unquestionably make a handsome couple, their embraces shed no light on the problem of how Moses, portrayed as on the threshold of the Egyptian throne, becomes a prophet and the deliverer of an enslaved race. Like the spectacle, the romance only obscures the central problem of the story...
...main question for Egypt," stated Col. Nizan, "is leadership. That nation must have leaders who understand the desires of Israel, and realize that she wants nothing but to be left alone to build herself up. Egyptian leaders who instill hatred into their people only aggravate the situation...
Cols. Nizan and Meidan, speculating on the possible results of the Mid-East war, believe that to some degree the conflict has destroyed Egyptian military potential. Egypt's air force has been practically annihilated, and many of her tanks and other armaments have been destroyed, they reported. Furthermore, they stated, Egypt probably realizes now that Israel will not sit meekly by while the Arab states arm for her destruction...