Word: suez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egypt absolute independence- that is, to end British control of Egypt's foreign affairs, to insist upon the withdrawal of British financial advisors and British troops on Egyptian territory, to transfer from the British the right to protect foreign minorities and to claim sole right of protecting the Suez Canal. Furthermore, he would abolish the Anglo-Egyptian condominion in the Sudan and make that country an integral part of Egypt wholly under Egyptian rule...
With Ziwar Pasha likely to remain in power, Egyptian policy will endeavor to solve the present knotty problems by friendly methods, while recognizing Britain's right to protect the Suez Canal, "the Gateway to India" and loyally cooperating in the joint administration of the Sudan...
...Dardanelles campaign early in 1915 he organized the American Red Cross in Constantinople, and later in the same year organized a group of American and native doctors which accompanied the Turkish army in its attack on the Suez Canal. In 1917 he served as Lieutenant Colonel of the Red Cross in France until he became attached to General Allenby's army, which he accompanied in the victorious campaign which ended in the capture of Jerusalem...
...East of Suez. Pola Negri has a new coif, and no becoming one at that. Much less inflaming than usual, she writhes her way through W. Somerset Maugham's play about a Eurasienne, who was shanghaied, in the city of that name, by a yellow gentleman with enormous talons and discomfiting eyes. Before that she had planned to marry a young Britisher (Edmund Lowe). Afterwards she married her rescuer (Rockcliffe Fellows). There are sentiment, sobs, horror, passiont close-ups-far east of Suez...
...civilization so nearly the opposite of our own tremendously broadening. It is questionable whether the teacher can impart as much as he receives. The trip can be arranged so that he can go to China across the Pacific and then return to America by way of India and Suez, thus giving him a trip around the world. Nobody should be deferred by the present disorder in China because it has no anti-foreign aspect at all and the danger is very slight. Also, this is purely a teaching proposition and the teachers are not required to do any evangelical work...