Figure 1.-- Here we see street in Port Said, we think about 1930 with some of the European children that lived there. After the War, the British ended the protectorate and recognized Egyptian independence (1922), although retained control over the government, economy, amd most critically the Suez Canal. Gradually Britain was disengaging from Egypt. This process came to a screaching halt when Adolf Hitler bd the NAZIs seized power in Germany.

Port Said on the Mediterranan end became an important city with a international character until Nasser nationalized the Canal (1956). Port Tewfik is of lesser importance. Port Said is located in northeastern Egypt at theentrance to the Canal. It is a modern vity only created as the Canakl was built (1859). Port Said began as an international city. It flourished during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. It was populatee by a wide variety of nationalities and religions, primarily from Mediterranean countries creaing a tolerant, cosmopolitan community. Rudyard Kipling commented, "If you truly wish to find someone you have known and who travels, there are two points on the globe you have but to sit and wait, sooner or later your man will come there: the docks of London and Port Said". There are many substantial houses with grand old balconies on all floors. This provided a distinctive look. The city had more of a Europeam Mediterranean look than an Egyptian city. Britain was preparing to leave Egypt, but the rise of the NAZIs in Gernmany caysed the British Governmenht to delay this. The British pressed Egyopt to accept thevAnglo-Egyptian Treaty (1936). After Workd War II, the Egyotian Givernment begn to oressure the Britisj to leave. The Egyptian Revolution escalated this dynamic (1952). President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal (1956). Britain and France in colludsion with Israel invade Egypt. The main battle occurred in Port Said which was the center of the Suez Crisis. The last foreign soldier soldier with drew (December 1956). The Europeans began to leave the city. After the Six-Day War (1967), the Suez Canal was closed by an Egyptian blockade. The Egyptian Givernment evacuated the opopulation as part of the preoparation for the Yom Kippur War (1973). The city has since been re-inhabited since the reopening of the Canal. Port Said was declared a duty-free port (1976) prividing an attraction for people transiting the Canal and attracting many Egyptians.

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