 The task would be a digging proposition, pure and simple. A cardinal article of faith of the legal status of the canal is its absolute internationality. By its constitution no government can employ it in war time to the exclusion or disadvantage of another...  East of Suez: Ceylon, India, China and Japan - Page 12by Frederic Courtland Penfield - 1907 - 349 pagesFull view - About this book
 | J. Fitzgerald Lee - Great Britain - 1923 - 296 pages
...where the new railway crosses which goes from Cairo to Jerusalem. The canal is neutral ; it is exempted from blockade ; and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are allowed to pass through it, in peace or war. Still it was made to serve the strategy of Wolseley's... | |
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