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Suez Canal Role as Lifeline and Point of Global Tension
The Suez Canal, described as the empire’s lifeline, is controlled by a private British French company, not Britain itself. Since Victoria’s era Britain has kept troops in the Canal Zone, while tensions rise as Egypt challenges the 1936 treaty. Churchill’s proposal for international troops provokes Arab League resistance, and loss of Suez would harm the West while boosting Russia.
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Suez Canal
Britain
Suez Canal Co
Suez
Victoria
Mediterranean
Red Sea
Indies
Ferdinand de Lesseps
de Lesseps
Egypt
Canal Zone
Churchill
U. S
France
Turkey
British
Europe
Middle East
Russia