CLEARING CANAL
Press Attack On Nasser (Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 26. The “New York Times” referred today to a “sinister drift cf affairs in Egypt,” and said that the United States State Department had been taking a rather complacent attitude in the dispute over the use of British and French salvage vessels for clearing the Suez Canal. “This squabble was merely one of the many pretexts by which President Nasser delayed the clearing operation,” the newspaper said. “His insistence on a prior Israeli withdrawal may be merely another pretext to permit him to hold the world at ransom.” “Unfortunately these developments are not wholly unexpected, and it is to be feared that the well-meaning but politically ingenuous quarters which insisted on treating President Nasser as the innocent victim of aggression have merely encouraged him in his present course,” said the “New York Times.” “Just the same, this course represents a further flagrant violation of the Suez Convention and an equally flagrant defiance of the United Nations.”
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28161, 27 December 1956, Page 7
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168CLEARING CANAL Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28161, 27 December 1956, Page 7
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