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- [Footnote: Peninsula was a formidable natural defence against an attack
on the Suez Canal and that such an expedition would be merely a pin-prick in the imperial flesh. Parliamentary Debates, House of Lords, fifth series, Volume 7 (1911), pp. 601 et seq. The termination in a fiasco of the Turkish drive of 1914-1915 against the Canal confirmed this prophecy.]
