Word: suez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anniversary of his revolution, July 23, 1952, is one of President Nasser's great occasions. At last year's Cairo blowout, he announced seizure of the Suez Canal Co. This year he planned to inaugurate the first session of his new one-party Parliament, and his followers hoped for new excitements...
...Indian sympathies; instead, he supported Pakistan's membership in the U.S.-sponsored Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and the British-sponsored .Baghdad Pact, won the plaudits of Moslem Firsters when the U.N. made its strongest-yet condemnation of Nehru on Kashmir. In the touchy situation after Suez, he spoke up firmly to doubting Moslems on behalf of the Eisenhower Doctrine...
...After the failure of last fall's invasion of Egypt, he concluded, Britain no longer has a specific individual role to play in the lands bordering the eastern Mediterranean (Friend Iraq would be defended by the Baghdad Pact as a whole). "The emphasis has shifted south of the Suez Canal to the Arabian peninsula area," declared Sandys. The oil-rich Persian Gulf sheikdoms, including Kuwait, remain Britain's special concern and might have to be defended by Britain alone, especially against local disturbances. This meant that Cyprus, lying on the wrong end of the lost canal...
Second, they have applied an economic boycott that is so efficient that Israel loses more from this cause than she gains from any single form of foreign aid. To supplement the boycott, the Egyptians have refused to allow Israeli ships to transit the Suez Canal...
...defeated Nasser struggles to free himself from isolation, the very U.S. intervention which saved him last November is now baldly distorted. During the Suez invasion, said one Egyptian newspaper last week, it was the U.S. naval attache in Port Said who gave signals to the attacking French and British bombers to guide them to their targets...