Word: suez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increased by hints of "volunteers'' from the East. Headlines, further exaggerating newspapers' excited stories, spoke of tanks, planes and troops locked in "raging" battle for Lebanon and the whole Arab world. Wherever diplomats drank, voices were heard forecasting that the West was headed for a second Suez, and demanding to know when the West was going to face up to Nasser. U.S. Senator John Kennedy declared that the U.S. stood on the brink of war, while Columnist Joe Alsop cried that another Munich was in the offing. Some argued that it would be madness to send...
...wife who is half English, half Lebanese and a Presbyterian. Chamoun himself, as tradition dictates for a Lebanese president, is a Roman Catholic of the Maronite sect. Elected as an ardent nationalist on a reform ticket, he stuck to Lebanon's customary neutral foreign policy until the Suez crisis, then plumped for the West and followed through by becoming the first Arab leader in the Middle East to pledge his country to the Eisenhower Doctrine...
HUNGARY and the Middle East have a way of coming alive together, just as they did when the revolt in Budapest and the attack on Suez coincided. Last week the U.N. was once again moving in observers to ensure Middle East peace, and there was talk of whether the U.S. might have to go to the rescue in Lebanon. The U.S. was not eager to: it was in fact the fifth and least attractive of remedies. See FOREIGN NEWS, Five Stages to Peace...
...toll rates will open in Ottawa and Washington in August; if both the U.S. and Canadian governments approve the rates as recommended, it will usually cost shipowners less in tolls to move their vessels the 369 miles from Montreal to Lake Erie than to go through the Panama or Suez Canals...
...third time in its history, the United Nations last week decided to set up a team of observers in the Middle East. This time, unlike Suez and Palestine, the question at issue was one of Arabs v. Arabs...