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dated August 4, 1956: Big 3 plan for Suez

Britain, France and the US on August 2 proposed a 24-nation conference to be held in London on August 16 to consider the establishment of international control over the Suez Canal. In a communiqué issued after five days of talks in London, the Western Big 3 condemned Egypt's nationalisation of the waterway last week as "arbitrary and unilateral." They deplored what they described as Egypt's "denial of fundamental human rights" by compelling the employees of the Suez Canal Company to work under threat of imprisonment. In Cairo, Egyptian officials said they wondered if the US would entertain the idea of having the Panama Canal placed under international supervision. They said Egypt, like the US in regard to the Panama Canal, could never accept international control of the Suez Canal.

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