Word: suez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lords, there was a Prime Minister (Rosebery) with a Rothschild wife, a host of great English families with Rothschild blood. Disraeli was dining with Lionel Rothschild the night a Rothschild courier brought in a message from the Khedive of Egypt, offering to sell his shares in the Suez Canal for ?4,000,000. Since the Bank of England could not scrape up the money to meet the 48-hour deadline. Lionel politely supplied the cash...
Volume Two is an account of the period 1950 to 1960 and covers the rise of McCarthy, Khruschchev's anti-Stalin speech, Hungary, Suez, Iraq, Quemoy, Sputnik and the Summits. From a careful examination of these events, their interrelation, and the pre-War period, Fleming says, "It is difficult to find evidence of any desire on the part of the Soviets to plunge into conflict with the West." The Cold War is made to seem a creation of the West; so too is the iron curtain. Fleming even relates the Hungarian Revolt to the forced armament of Eastern Europe following...
...Oxford University Conservative Association, Macmillan was hooted down by undergraduates shouting "Give us more cliches." In the lobbies of Westminster and the coffeehouses of Soho, a major national pastime is "rubbing the magic off Mac." No longer is he the urbane figure who rescued the Tory Party from the Suez disaster, repaired the Anglo-American breach, led the Tories to a smashing election victory in 1959 with the slogan: "You never had it so good." To many Tories, Macmillan's familiar Edwardian image has become a liability...
...British ships, Union-Castle's 33,500-ton Transvaal Castle, which will run between Southampton and South Africa, and P. & O. Orient's 45,000-ton Canberra, which will ply a leisurely looping route from Vancouver to California to Australia, Singapore and Ceylon, on through the Suez Canal and Mediterranean to Britain, with many stops along the way. The Transvaal Castle is strictly one class, fixes its rates ($392 to $2,324) according to size and location of the cabins. The Canberra has first and tourist classes ($767 to $2,761) and an aluminum superstructure, which...
...Macmillan found that it, too, was locked, was obliged to hammer away on it for three minutes before unnerved officials inside the building accepted his repeated assurances: "It's the P.M. I am the P.M." But at evening's end, despite continuous heckling shouts of "What about Suez?" and "Who wrote this speech?", Macmillan was as unflappable as ever. "A splendid evening," he purred. "I enjoyed every minute...