Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Egypt – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 February 1954.
Mr Evelyn Strachey
, Dundee West
12:00,
17 February 1954
Would not the Minister of State agree that, whatever else experience shows, the presence of 84,000 British troops in this Zone and outside it has not ensured the free navigation of the Canal?
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