World Events

Abstract

North Africa and the Middle East sizzled during the summer of 1956. Local shootings and the threat of widespread war hung low and heavy over the area. The driving forces were oil production and transportation; the lifeline through Suez; Arab and Israeli nationalism; Britain's savage "war" against a handful of Cypriot patriots and her humiliating withdrawal from the Suez Canal Zone; and the rapid expansion of United States and Soviet investments and involvements in the area.

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