Word: ismailia
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...Churchill was sailing homeward aboard the Queen Mary when Egypt's mobs swarmed through Cairo, demanding an immediate declaration of war on his nation. The U.S. State Department was leisurely considering, and disliking, Churchill's plea for a token show of U.S. force in Suez. Bloodshed in Ismailia, followed by vengeful bloodletting in Cairo, ended the false calm...
...significant shot keynoted the early stages of the rioting: the rifle shot that a fortnight ago killed Bridget Ann Timbers, an American nun, outside the convent in Ismailia where she had been stationed. The nun's death, for which each side blamed the other, was followed by bloody rioting in Ismailia, and a ruthless house-to-house search by the British for guerrillas and hidden weapons...
...turn to a telephone call relayed from Britain's sorely tried Suez Commander in Chief Sir George Erskine to Egyptian Interior Minister Serag el Din. General Erskine's demand: the Egyptian police must hand over their weapons and evacuate the Canal Zone. Otherwise, warned the British commander, Ismailia's police headquarters would be "destroyed by force." Serag el Din turned the ultimatum down cold and ordered his policemen to "resist to the last bullet...
Vengeance with Flames. The respect was not mutual. In Cairo, 75 miles to the southwest, Interior Minister Serag el Din took to the air and harangued the people with bogus tales of British atrocities in Ismailia. The British had routed Moslem women out of their beds, he said, and hauled them half-naked into the streets...
...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...