Word: suez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the new plan, the British army, which kept the peace east of Suez ("Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst") and bore the white man's burden to Fuzzy-Wuzzies and Gunga Dins, will be cut down to only 160,000 men, all regulars. The R.A.F., the few to whom so many owe so much, will become an air force without combat airplanes of about 150,000 men. The Royal Navy, which for centuries enforced the Pax Britannica and patrolled an empire from Gibraltar to Rangoon, will be reduced...
...Britain, the plan, long known in outline and long discussed, met with sober approval. After Suez there was no use even pretending that Britain could act alone. "Realistic, sensible, and therefore drastic," said the Manchester Guardian. Politically minded Tories noted gratefully that the unpopular conscription might end just about general election time in 1960. Laborites could hardly oppose an arms cut they have long been urging...
Speaking at the Geographical Institute, Schwadran stated that the refusal of the United States to stand up to Nasser over the Suez Canal issue would allow him to gain control of the Arab world at the expense of other leaders...
Schwadran said that the United States should insist Egypt abide by the six United Nations principles on the Suez Canal. If Egypt should refuse, the U.S. should apply stringent economic measures and should attempt to isolate Egypt...
...speaker stressed that the question of the huge oil reserves lay behind both the Suez Canal issue and the East-West controversy over the Middle East. He gave estimates which put the Middle East reserves between 67 and 75 percent of the world total...