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🗓️ 5 March 2024
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0:00.0 | In a public speech at Alexandria tonight, President Nasser announced that Egypt would build the Aswan Dam from her own resources. |
0:09.0 | Funds would be obtained from Operation of Suez Canal. |
0:12.4 | Law nationalizing Suez Canal and expropriating canal company was approved by Cabinet this morning. |
0:19.1 | Text, as read out by Nassar follows. |
0:21.8 | Police have just been posted around Canal Company's Cairo office. |
0:27.2 | British Ambassador to Egypt, Humphrey Trevelyan, reports on Nassar's provocative nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company. |
0:35.1 | Telegram received in London at 9.45pm, 26th of July, 1956. |
0:42.9 | I expect that most of us have seen, sometimes with amusement and sometimes with anger, |
0:48.5 | reports and orders, obviously worded with an eye to the future historian, or as we used to call them, for the record. |
0:56.7 | The wording of signals and orders for the record is a very fine art and well calculated to Fox |
1:04.0 | the historian. Lord Tether, writing in his book With Prejudice, 1966. |
1:12.5 | In England, in the late 1950s and early 60s, the word was a political taunt of considerable |
1:18.7 | force and pungency. One had only to shout, Suez, at a conservative orator, to see his features |
1:25.6 | decompose with dismay. |
1:30.9 | A classic Tory education, Eaton, Munich and Suez, |
1:36.1 | was how one scornful writer sketched the political career of a former prime minister. |
1:43.8 | Like Munich, indeed, Suez had become an indelible metaphor for fiasco, dishonor and humiliation. |
1:47.6 | Christopher Hitchens, writing in 1986. |
2:04.0 | Come to this nation, jump from the train March at the dobble down lovers' lane |
2:08.4 | Then in the glen where the roses entwined |
2:13.0 | Lay down your arms |
2:15.2 | Lay down your arms |
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