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ADAMS: Dudley Fennel, C: Tom Vickery; John Turner, g: Howard Townsend, t: Hugh Moss, e: Ted Cook, qb: Elhanen Stone...
...white stucco British army grocery store in Ismailia, 43 British wives and their children were shopping unusually early. "I thought if there was to be trouble, it would be at a respectable hour," said Mrs. Stella Townsend, the wife of a Royal Signal Corps officer. Others had made the same surmise. Mrs. Townsend queued up patiently as the clerk served a neighbor with sausages, biscuits and a packet of sticky gumdrops. A score of British moppets wrestled happily on the floor. Suddenly there were angry shouts in the square outside. A gang of young Egyptians bellowed "Get out, dirty British...
...beginning no one was afraid," said Mrs. Townsend afterwards. "The kids were having fun making castles with the cans. But the crowd set fire to the awnings and the canteen next door. Fire was crackling all around us. The mob broke into a drink shop. We were awfully scared then. People began shouting, 'Where's the bloody army?' It was a real shaky...
...battalion of Britain's 6th Lancashire Fusiliers (infantry) supported by heavy armored cars swung into Ismailia. The fusiliers opened fire: eight Egyptians fell dead, 74 were wounded. Stella Townsend and her friends were rushed home in trucks. Ismailia calmed down...
Times had changed from those exhilarating days when The Plan was going to cure the depression and Dr. Townsend strode into Washington with 25 million signatures in his pocket to tell Congress that if it didn't like his plan there would be a different Congress, and if the President didn't like it, there would be a different President. Money had gotten a little short to support the big lobby which Townsend still doggedly maintains in Washington. But the doctor had found a cure. Said he: "I had to find something we could sell to the public...