Letters to the Editor
Safeguarding Suez Louis Fanous The Golden Chance Michael Astor Nationalisation and Propaganda R. Gresham Cooke, MP
Deification and Clarification Evelyn Waugh, Rev. E. G. Rupp, The Bishop of Dover
The Off-White Whale Charles Hamblen Cheesy T. A. Layton Who is Walter Hammond? Gerald Hamilton The Dead Sea Scrolls Edmund Wilson Drink and Road Accidents Dr. W. Nolst Trenite
BBC-manship John Pullan
SAFEGUARDING SUEZ
IN VIEW RAPIDLY GROWING GRAVITY SUEZ SITUATION PLEASE PUBLISH FOLLOWING EXPRES- SION VIEWS EGYPTIAN NATIONALISTS FRIENDLY BRITISH, WHY BRANDISH PROVOCATIVE MILITARY ACTION AGAINST EGYPT PREMATURELY THEREBY INSULTING OUR NATIONAL FEELING UNNECES- SARILY PROVOKING SINISTER SUSPICIONS BRITISH INTENTIONS DRIVING US FORCIBLY EASTWARDS FOR HELP? WHY THIS UNWARRANTED AGGRES- SIVENESS PREGNANT SINISTER POSSIBLE DE- VELOPMENTS EVEN WORLD WAR HAVOC MIDDLE EAST AND YOURSELVES WITHOUT REAL REASON? EGYPT HITHERTO ACTED PERFECT LEGALITY RESPECTING INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS. WHY NOW CALL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LONDON DEAL EGYPTIAN NATIONAL RIGHTS AND TERRITORY, BEFORE AND WITHOUT CONSULTING EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT LAWFUL AUTHORITY CANAL? SURELY EGYPT ENTITLED NORMAL INTER- NATIONAL RESPECT AND PROCEDURE. WHY INSULT US AND ARABS BY THIS DICTATORIAL BULLYING? MILITARY THREATS NOT REQUIRED SITUATION WE CANNOT ACCEPT AND WOULD RESIST HOWEVER WEAKER SEEKING MARTYRDOM HONOUR AS FORE- FATHERS. WHY THIS HORRIBLE INHUMANITY? WHY UNNECESSARILY DESTROY 'TRADITIONAL FRIENDSHIP EGYPTIAN ARABS ISLAM WHICH PROVED MOST USEFUL BRITISH TWO WORLD WARS AND PRESENT GREAT COMMON MORAL POLITICAL COMMON INTERESTS OURS AND WESTERN PEOPLES MERELY TO GRATIFY CUPIDITY INTERNATIONAL FINANCIERS MOSTLY FRENCH FOR FURTHER FABULOUS UNMERITED PROFITS CANAL SHARES UNTIL 1968 FORGETTING EGYPTIANS GAVE TWELVE MILLIONS AGAINST EIGHT MIL- LIONS OF SHAREHOLDERS 1869 NOW WITH COM- POUND SIX PER CENT INTEREST EQUAL OVER TWO THOUSAND MILLIONS FOR WHICH HITHERTO EGYPTIANS GOT NOTHING SHAREHOLDERS GET- TING EVERYTHING? WHY NOW GRUDGE EGYP- TIANS GETTING SMALL BELATED SHARE IN PROFITS CANAL WHICH COST FOREFATHERS HUN- DRED THOUSAND LIVES FORCED LABOUR IN ADDI- TION MONEY WITHOUT BOTH WHICH CANAL WOULD NOT HAVE MATERIALISED? OTHERWISE NASSER NATIONALISATION ALTERED NOTHING. CANAL WORKING AS BEFORE. READ ECONOMIST ARTICLE EUROPE ACHILLES HEEL. SURELY COOL
LOUIS FANOUS
20 Hassan Sabry, Zamalek, Cairo
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