... of an air intelligence unit during the Suez Canal Crisis in 1956. He joined the family firm of...
Crisis in Mideast creates uncertainty . WASHINGTON -- Th... region and even affect shipments through the Suez Canal. Egypt is not a major oil producer, but it c... and shut briefly during the Suez crisis of 1956. "I think the major fear regarding the Suez Canal ...
... agreement to resolve the Kosovo crisis, providing that Russian troops would also be part ... biggest rift within the alliance since the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, did not deter the Bush administ...
...'s minister for external affairs, during the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. (He was awarded the Nobel Pe...
Following the success of the Morris Minor, Issigonis began work on chairman Lord's small-car vision in 1957. The design parameters were strict. The Mini had to comfortably carry four adults, plus their luggage, but be extremely fuel efficient. In addition, the car's maximum size would be no more than 10 feet (about three metres) long, four feet wide (about 1.2 metres) and four feet tall. There was no money in the budget to develop a new engine, necessitating the use of an existing BMC powerplant. To create the maximum amount of passenger space, Issigonis came up with the idea of positioning the Mini's engine sideways, sending power to the front wheels using a four-speed manual transmission tucked under the engine's crankshaft. For further simplicity and weight savings, both the engine a...
...The Suez crisis of 1956 had choked off the canal, restricti...
Peacekeeping has a place of pride in the Canadian national identity. Canadians feel that their nation is a natural leader in this international endeavour. How is this national identity expressed, and howhas it come about? Is it justified? An answer to these questions requires a probe of Canadian public and military attitudes, a historical review of Canada's peacekeeping activities, and an examination of current Canadian contributions. The final question is: What is needed if Canada is to live up to the image of the proud and prolific peacekeeper?
... contribution to a UN mission caused a crisis in the Prime Minister's cabinet in 1947. William L... UN General Assembly in 1952-53 and, when the Suez Crisis broke out in 1956, he had his shining momen... with Israel to seize control of the Suez Canal shortly after Egypt's President Gamel Abdel Nasser...
It would also, Mr. [Lloyd Axworthy] thinks, give Canada the opportunity to play "honest broker." Like many Liberals, he clings to this idea, although it is largely a myth. In the honest broker role as Liberals understand it today, one does not take sides between right and wrong. Lester Pearson's brokerage of the 1956 Suez crisis is held up as the first example of this -- Mr. Axworthy cites it himself -- but Pearson did take sides. He condemned the British and French attempt to appropriate the Suez Canal, but because he was a man of principle who could be respected, he was able to honestly broker the negotiations.
And if it doesn't," she said with a chuckle Friday, "I'll still have some normalcy in my life, and I'll go back to sleep. "I've been told," said [Watt-Cloutier], "that they call the winner or winners just a few minutes before" the official announcement. "I think that will be 10 or 11 Oslo time, or about 4 in the morning here. I'll be here, in my Arctic home." "The nomination itself has been a win," said Watt-Cloutier, acknowledging her thrill at being considered a favourite for the "huge and prestigious award."
... Peace Prize for his key role in defusing the 1956 Suez Crisis, a conflict over shipping through the Middle Eastern canal that threatened to explode into a global war. Pear...
This occurred only as a defensive response by [Gamal Abdel Nasser] to the ill-conceived British-French intervention. Indeed, invoking several comparisons with the current situation in Iraq, [John Melady] is highly critical of British Prime Minister Anthony Eden's "rush to war" to restore British sovereignty over the canal. As have other accounts, Melady emphasizes that Eden was driven by the dual combination of intense personal dislike of Nasser, derived from their one and only meeting in 1955, and his own deep insecurities, most important an abiding fear of failure in a time of crisis. Indeed, it is the tragic figure of Eden who really dominates the book. This is not necessarily a flaw except that the title and cover photos suggest that [Lester B. Pearson] will be the focal point of th...
... a ceasefire, Pearson was awarded the 1956 Nobel Peace Prize. Ontario writer John Melady, who...
The British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt was an instant military success, because at that point Egypt had just emerged from centuries of colonial rule by the Turks and the British. Egypt was utterly incapable of defending itself against countries that had long-range bombers, aircraft carriers and amphibious forces. But what was striking, even then, was the sheer helplessness of the Anglo-French invasion forces once they had won their military victory. It is unlikely that anybody in power in London or in Paris ever put it quite that way at the time. Even in the innermost circles of power, things are rarely called by their proper names, and the lies are layered. Thus the British and French secretly agreed with the Israelis that the latter should invade Egypt, whereupon Britain and Fra...
... marks the 50th anniversary of the Suez crisis of 1956, when Britain, France and Israel conspired... Egyptian combatants and "protect" the Suez Canal. Behind that was a story about how Egypt's nationa...
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