Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of crisis were Monday and Tuesday of last week. All through those hectic 48 hours, there was a clear pattern: the British and French knew what the Israelis were doing, and in advance; the U.S. did not. Eleven hours before the first Israeli vehicle rolled across the Egyptian border, Pineau dashed over to London. To an aide who asked whether there would be a war, Pineau was reported as saying: "I can't tell you yet." In Jerusalem, Britain's Ambassador Sir John Nicholls was told that morning that the Israeli army would jump off at nightfall, and relayed...
...first flash of conflict, casualties were considerable among British and French as well as Egyptians. Back in Cyprus, beaming, well-starched Invasion Chief Sir Charles Keightley admitted that the Egyptian army was still "a cohesive force," but he was ready with Step Two in his "limited operation." The invasion fleets had already steamed out for Port Said from Cyprus...
...unthinkable" to the U.S.-and to others as well. Summoned (this time by Russia) into their fourth night emergency session in a row, the U.N. Security Council refused to consider the plan. Even rejected, however, the Soviet move added to the danger. Only a few hours later, the Egyptians were inviting "volunteers," and Radio Moscow carried the call. Unless West ern powers hastily rejoined ranks and brought Egyptian fighting to a quick end, they were confronted with the menace of armed Russian intrusion into the Middle East. Out of this awareness came this week's cease-fire agreement...
...running fire of public expressions of indignation. "In all my experience of foreign affairs," he trumpeted, "I am not aware of a grosser case of naked aggression." After first astonishing diplomats by refusing to show similar indignation at the events in Hungary, Nehru this week cited both the Egyptian and Hungarian crises as instances of "human dignity and freedom outraged...
...Gurion the No. 1 enemy for attack was not Jordan but Egypt, and last week the time was right. It did not matter that for weeks there had been comparative quiet on the Egyptian border (Nasser was too busy with the Suez crisis) nor that Egypt did not even have its usual strong Jorces on the frontier. After the big push began, Israel justified its attack by saying that it had arrested three Egyptian-trained fedayeen (self-sacrificers) units that had penetrated into Israel. Israel did not even mother to accuse them of any overt act after entering Israel...