Word: suez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond the power plays and dickerings that whirled around the Jordan crisis, Washington last week rated as the diplomatic news of the week another prime accomplishment: after months of threat, war and negotiation, the Suez Canal was open for business again. True enough, it was open on Nasser's terms, as he made clear in a unilateral declaration deposited with the United Nations Security Council. But in laying out the terms, Nasser made important concessions by pledging himself to: ¶ "Respect the terms and spirit" of the 1888 Constantinople Convention, which provided that the canal "shall always be free...
Nasser's pledge was certainly not the best or even the most hopeful protection for the ships that sail the Suez. But in cold fact a treaty would be little better than a pledge if he intended to violate and subvert it. The true proof will come in his actions...
...Britain, France and the U.S. to join the U.S.S.R. in renouncing the use of force in the Middle East. While the Western powers were still busily explaining what a poor idea this was, the Russians blandly announced that they were about to release the text of the pre-Suez invasion notes in which Khrushchev had warned Sir Anthony Eden and French Premier Guy Mollet against attacking Egypt. In what they apparently considered a shrewd counterpunch, the British hastily published the notes before the Russians could-and thereby helped to remind the Arabs that Russia alone among major powers had sided...
...cool of the early morning, S.S. President Jackson moved into Suez and took on veteran Egyptian Pilot Mahmoud Metwali. The Jackson paid $10,295 in tolls with a polite note indicating that she was obeying U.S. Government instructions to pay under protest. Then, with the U.S. flag flying at the stern and the green Egyptian flag at the foremast truck, President Jackson steamed slowly northward into the canal at the head of a convoy of four ships. Mahmoud Younis, manager of Egypt's Suez Canal administration, wired the twelve passengers a Happy Easter and a pleasant trip. At Ismailia...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 26--The United States today accepted Egypt's new Suez Canal plan on a trial basis but six other members of the U.N. Security Council said an international agreement is needed...