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Each British ship was kept in good trim and worked by a crew with boundless confidence in its ability to lick the French. Britain's defensive precautions were superb. Agents, who reported to London the least move of any French warship, were stationed all around the coast of Europe, even in French ministries. At the mouth of every French port lay a British squadron, its sails forever visible on the horizon, its quick frigates ready to race for reinforcements should the French move...
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 22--President Eisenhower, planning important disarmament conference with Harold Stassen tomorrow, arranged today to observe maneuvers aboard a mighty warship--the new 60,000-ton aircraft carrier Saratoga...
...flag tanker, on Israel's charter and carrying a full cargo of Persian Gulf oil, sailed up the Gulf of Aqaba last week in a blinding sandstorm and anchored at the Israeli port of Elath. En route, in the Red Sea, a U.S. warship had spoken the tanker and asked it to identify itself. "When we said we were American and on our way to Elath," said the skipper, "the reply was, 'Good luck.' " As the tanker passed through the narrow and disputed Strait of Tiran, the captain ordered the flag dipped in salute to the UNEF...
...denied: that the day Israel invaded Egypt three French destroyers protectively patrolled Israel's coast, three squadrons of French fighters and fighter-bombers were at Lydda Airdrome, and a French-not an Israeli-destroyer, the Kersaint, played a leading role in the shelling and capture of the Egyptian warship Ibrahim Awal off Haifa...
...fatherland," spouts Lux 45. "You mean from the liver," answers the anti-Perón transmitter, japing at the Peronistas' bilious tone. "Perón, our leader," chants Lux 45. "Juan Domingo Gunboat." corrects the loyal radio, recalling the dictator's undignified exit aboard a Paraguayan warship...