Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Egypt – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 February 1954.
Mr Barnett Janner
, Leicester North West
12:00,
17 February 1954
Will the Minister be good enough to state categorically that the obligations upon Egypt to allow traffic through the Suez Canal will be insisted upon by our representative in the Security Council, and that there will be no deviation from this course?
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