Word: suez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greater Power. The U.S. met the new threat to the Middle East as it had met the old. During the Suez crisis the Russians had threatened to rocket-bomb London and Paris and to send Communist volunteers into the Middle East; the U.S. responded by warning the Kremlin that the U.S. would forcibly oppose the Communist volunteers, that any rocket attack against Western Europe would trigger instant U.S. air retaliation against the centers of Soviet power (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). Now the State Department fired off a tough statement warning the unpredictable Khrushchev, in effect, that the U.S. would...
...Queen's husband. Prince Philip, and he will play a considerable part in the success (or failure) of a royal diplomatic mission whose underlying purpose is to help restore to its old warmth the U.S. public's image of Britain, recently smudged by misadventure in Suez...
Potbellied and dripping, the new chairman of the Tory Party rose from Bright on's chill October sea last week and fired new hope in a Tory Party gathered for its annual conference and glumly reflecting on a dozen by-election setbacks since Suez. Chubby, puckish Viscount Hailsham, 50, only three weeks in office, delighted the delegates with his handshaking zeal, astounded them as he splashed into the ocean for early morning dips, moved them with shamelessly orotund oratory. "Britain is still recognizably a lion among nations," he roared. "I do not believe that we have been spared...
Nasser has already started talks with the British and French to settle Suez claims and restore ties with Egypt's old trading partners. Says a high U.S. official in Cairo flatly: "Egypt's Russian experiment has failed...
...leviathans will be 131 ft. shorter but a full 16 ft. wider than the Queen Elizabeth, world's biggest passenger liner. Though none of the ships will be able to squeeze through the Suez or Panama Canals, they will cost far less to operate while hauling far more cargo than smaller ships, even though forced to take longer routes...