Word: ismailia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aigle sailed slowly at the head of a great fleet of visiting ships through the first leg of the canal to Ismailia, Arab horsemen on shore waved their carbines in the air and performed equestrian wonders. An acrobat walked a tightrope with two babies strapped to his ankles, while whirling dervishes held hot coals in their teeth, swallowed live scorpions and otherwise entertained the crowds. That night there was a great ball at the Khedive's palace...
Died. William H. Price, 27, wartime lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, TIME & LIFE correspondent in Egypt; in a plane crash; near Ismailia, Egypt...
...noon thousands of Egyptians were swarming across the Nile bridges and down the streets that spoked into the Midan el-Ismailia. Around the British Embassy raucous voices chanted "Down with England, down with the conqueror," "Evacuation of British troops or bloodshed." Sweaty, swaying bodies surged across the square toward the Embassy, where tin-helmeted Egyptian police barred the way with billies. The rioters turned back toward the R.A.F. barracks on the Midan...
...World's record nonstop flight was made in 1938 by two British Royal Air Force Vickers-Wellesley planes between Ismailia, Egypt and Darwin, Australia...
...British in the Middle East took all this Italian excitement calmly enough. At Ismailia their Commander in Chief, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, presented colors to a detachment from surrendered Syria?French soldiers dressed in British uniforms. He and they welcomed news that the Frenchmen of French Equatorial Africa, France's big blob of territory south of Libya, had elected to fight on with Britain, that there were strong stirrings in French West Africa to join them (see p. 28). Australian anti-aircraftmen arrived and set up their guns in Cairo ?a sure sign that Egypt expected an Italian...