Word: suez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British and the Egyptians finally settled their accounts on the 1956 Suez war. For six weeks they had haggled over 700 acres of land near Alexandria owned by Joseph Smouha, 83-year-old Iraqi-born Jew known as the wealthiest British subject in Egypt (TIME. March 2). Solution of the Smouhaha. as the British called it: the Egyptians would give him back the race track, golf course and other built-up property that they had seized from him after the British landings. But they would keep the surrounding farm land which, for tax purposes, he had valued unusually...
Sigmund returned to Europe from Ceylon, with steps in the trigger-happy Near East ("It was Suez time"). The Air Force then extended an invitation ("I had a ROTC commission from college"), and he spend a year and a half ("Just long enough to learn to ski") with Air Force Intelligence in Germany and France...
Last week, a century later, the Anglo-Egyptian agreement to let Suez bygones be bygones was being held up largely because of the claims of one Iraqi-born Jewish British subject to property in Egypt. This time, far from boasting of its readiness to defend each and every subject of the crown, Britain's Treasury spokesman insisted: "We have never, never said the name of Smouha...
...Suez Replaced. The book (published in the U.S. by Putnam) went the rounds of British publishers, was rejected by some (one indignant publisher reputedly tore the book up page by page), was finally accepted by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. But W. & N. decided to hold up publication pending possible modification of Britain's vague pornography law, which gives any constable the right to seize books or have booksellers prosecuted if in his own judgment a book is obscene. Under a bill before Parliament since 1955, introduced by Author and Labor M.P. Roy Jenkins, the law would be modified to allow prosecution...
...bill. But if the reform fails, Publishers George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson risk prosecution should they bring out Lolita. The matter is complicated by the fact that Nicolson, 42, is also an M.P., who was previously in trouble with his local Bournemouth Conservative Association for opposing government policy on Suez (TiME, Feb. 2). Admitted a Conservative M.P. last week: "Lolita is the main issue. Suez has been replaced." Said a local politico: "A director of a firm intending to publish this vulgar novel is no fitting representative for good Bournemouth citizens...