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Professor Langer also emphasized the importance of the Nile water resources as a determining factor in British policy, although the one least mentioned in newspaper accounts. "Ever since the middle ages, a story has been current that the water supply of the Nile could be diverted," he said. "For long periods at a time, Egyptian Pharaohs used to pay bribes to keep the Ethiopians from tampering with the headwaters of the Nile...
...have just returned home from viewing the sixth issue of "The March of TIME " . . The sequence concerning the bootlegging of coal in the rugged hills of Pennsylvania was good likewise the scenes concerning Ethiopia, the east branch of the Nile, and Italy's Il Duce were brilliant, but it is the story of the CCC camps which I wish to commend the editors of ''The March of TIME...
...Gibraltar the colossal British war boats Hood and Renown had moved down last week to Alexandria within shooting distance of the Suez Canal, supported by 14 squadrons of British battle planes on the aircraft carriers Glorious and Courageous. At Aboukir. where Nelson routed Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile, arrived 170 more British war planes...
...choked up at this childish plea, Nile Club members coughed, blew their noses, regretted that His Majesty's Government still felt constrained last week to continue denying Ethiopia even the assistance of permitting her to buy British arms...
...Waugh (Black Mischief) and the late L. M. Nesbitt (HellHole of Creation). While both volumes made the country and its people out in strange, terrifying terms, they emerge as even more formidable in the account of Marcel Griaule, whose description of a French scientific expedition that traveled from the Nile to Addis Ababa has the quality of a nightmare sustained beyond human endurance...