In the following weeks while a solution was sought at various conferences in London and Washington the press informed the masses that the Egyptians would not be able to run the canal where traffic would soon break down

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In the following weeks, while "a solution" was sought at various conferences in London and Washington, the press informed the masses that "the Egyptians" would not be able to run the canal, where traffic would soon break down.