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dated September 11, 1956: Suez talks end

A joint communiqué issued on September 9 in Cairo stated that the talks between the Suez Committee, headed by the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies, and the Egyptian President, Col. Nasser, which had taken place between September 3 and 9, had ended. Mr. Menzies told correspondents after his final meeting with Col. Nasser that "the situation is very, very grave." He declined to comment further. The Egyptian President, in a letter to Mr. Menzies, said that it was difficult to imagine anything more provocative to the people of his country than the 18-nation plan for the international control of the Suez Canal. Any unbiased study of the plan, he declared, would leave the reader with one conviction - that "the purpose is to take the Suez Canal out of the hands of Egypt and put it into some other hands."

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