Word: egyptianized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
NASSER'S troubles are far from over, but any responsible assessment of the canal crisis must include the probability that the Egyptians are able to run it by themselves. At 0730 on the dot, placed 14th in a 24-ship convoy, the Coraggio swung free at Port Said. Egyptian Pilot Ibrahim el Shiaty, who speaks good Italian, barked his first orders: "Avanti adagio, venti a diritta" (Slow ahead, 20 degrees rudder to the right). We moved slowly past the statue of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps with bronze arm outstretched, past the white-colonnaded canal headquarters where the green...
Into too many Laborite minds sprang a vision of a convoy of tankers led by British warships shooting their way along the 103-mile canal. Above the uproar, Eden's voice rang out. "In the event [of Egyptian interference]. Her Majesty's government and others concerned will be free to take such further steps as seem to be required, either through the United Nations or by other means, for the assertion of their rights." "What do you mean by that?" shouted Laborite S. O. Davies. "You are talking about...
...master of the Suez Canal, could not be counted on to keep his promise not to interfere with the free passage of shipping. The Panaghia itself was not the only vessel to find its way barred as it tried to pass through the canal-for eight years the Egyptians have barred all Israeli ships and have halted eight ships of other flags on the way to or from Haifa with Israeli cargoes, in defiance of the Constantinople Convention of 1888 and a specific U.N. Security Council ruling. But the log of the steamer Panaghia had the grimmest story to tell...
...months, the eleven men lived in filth and boredom, their bodies nourished only by a meager ration of moldy bread that the Egyptians allowed aboard and the brackish water left in their original supply. Their spirits shriveled in a never-ending monotony of card playing ("The one deck we had got shredded"), and they were continually insulted, often spat upon, by the Egyptian guards...
When at last a doctor was permitted on board, he sent two crewmen back to Greece on the verge of mental collapse. Meanwhile, the Greek captain was hauled off to Alexandria for grilling by the Egyptian War Ministry. Soon after his return to his ship, he got his orders to sail-not onward, but back to Haifa...