CRUCIAL DAYS AT THE SUEZ: The Risk of Another China Debacle
... IT is pleasant to turn from the maddeningly complicated problem of the Middle East, centring on the Suez Canal, to the figure of Ferdinand de Lesseps on Port Said breakwater, welcoming all to equal use of his creation in war and in peace; pleasant but profitless. In the technical sense, as international waterway, the Canal is operating in a manner that would have brought delight to the ...