What Happened in the Suez Crisis?
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Hello dear listeners, this is a jack of all trades episode, which serves several purposes:
- It explains what the Suez Crisis was, and why you should be interested in it.
- It examined each one of the episodes, providing audio previews for most of them
- It announces our Q&A episode due on 18th May - our 7th birthday, and I need your questions!
- It serves as a call to arms, for history friends everywhere, to support this show in whatever way you can, in the run up to that birthday.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Come to the station, jump from the train, march at the door pulled down love's flame. |
| 0:15.5 | Head in the glen where the roses entwined lay down your arms, lay down your arms, lay down your arms and surrender to mine. |
| 0:31.2 | Lay down your arms and surrender to mine. |
| 0:34.5 | I love that song. |
| 0:35.5 | Hey guys, Zach Twomley here. |
| 0:40.0 | And welcome to a special episode where we ask it apparently simple question what happened exactly during the Suez Crisis. |
| 0:46.1 | If you're completely confused right now, first of all, where are my manners? |
| 0:49.4 | Hello there, as I said. My name is Zach Twomley. I host this crazy thing called When Diplomacy Fails. |
| 0:54.8 | For those regular listeners, don't worry, we will be returning on the 23rd of April with more Versailles |
| 1:00.4 | Anniversary Project and the Italians will come under our attention. For irregular listeners who saw |
| 1:06.1 | this episode, not referencing any Versailles Anniversary Project and decided to jump right in for |
| 1:10.6 | something different, |
| 1:12.4 | please bear with me. |
| 1:15.0 | Oh and spoiler alert from pretty much the 23rd of April until, well, the end of this project, |
| 1:22.4 | episodes will be coming in hard and fast, so I felt it might be a good idea to give you guys |
| 1:26.8 | a breather for a little while, until the project heats up and fast, so I felt it might be a good idea to give you guys a breather for a little while, |
| 1:28.6 | until the project heats up and incredible, though it may sound, enters its final phase. |
| 1:34.1 | I am mindful of the fact that we've been plugging away at the Versa Anniversary Project since the first week of November, |
| 1:40.1 | and while I have been having a ball and I've learned so much, |
| 1:42.7 | I am concerned that some aspiring |
| 1:44.7 | listeners might take one look at the fact that we're on episode 54 of the project and think, |
| 1:50.7 | oh my, where do I even begin? So for that reason, I thought it might be helpful to say, |
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