Word: ismailia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't that kind of child's play in the Suez Canal zone city of Ismailia. There a fight broke out in front of Egyptian police headquarters. Four British army officers, seven Egyptian cops and four civilians were killed. After order was restored, a truce was arranged: the Egyptians agreed to disarm their police, the British promised to evacuate the military families from Ismailia as quickly as possible. Both sides seemed eager to avoid trouble. The women were clearing out; it was unwise to be out after dark or to go off limits; a clap of the hands...
...white stucco British army grocery store in Ismailia, 43 British wives and their children were shopping unusually early. "I thought if there was to be trouble, it would be at a respectable hour," said Mrs. Stella Townsend, the wife of a Royal Signal Corps officer. Others had made the same surmise. Mrs. Townsend queued up patiently as the clerk served a neighbor with sausages, biscuits and a packet of sticky gumdrops. A score of British moppets wrestled happily on the floor. Suddenly there were angry shouts in the square outside. A gang of young Egyptians bellowed "Get out, dirty British...
...battalion of Britain's 6th Lancashire Fusiliers (infantry) supported by heavy armored cars swung into Ismailia. The fusiliers opened fire: eight Egyptians fell dead, 74 were wounded. Stella Townsend and her friends were rushed home in trucks. Ismailia calmed down...
Battle of the Bridge. So it began, but so it did not continue. British tanks and infantrymen rolled into Ismailia and Port Said, and took over railroad stations, harbors and telephone exchanges. Mechanized infantry sealed off the city of Suez. The commander of Britain's powerful Suez garrison is a tough, combat-seasoned soldier, Lieut. General Sir George Erskine, 52, who won the D.S.O. for helping to repel Rommel at El Alamein (said his citation: "He changed the whole course of battle"). "We are not going to be turned out, forced out or kicked out," he announced. His first...
Died. Sheik Mohamed Mamoun El Shinawi, 74, rector of Cairo's thousand-year-old El Azhar ("The Resplendent") University, fountainhead of Islamic orthodoxy; in Ismailia, Egypt...