...enforcement provisions deemed necessary to keep the canal always "free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag." Other provisions delineated the terms under which belligerent warships could use the canal. The convention...

...articles :— ARTICLE I. The Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag. any way to interfere with the free use of the canal, in time of war as in time of peace. The canal...

...Suez Canal, an international waterway crossing through Egyptian territory open "in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag" according to the Constantinople Convention of 29 October 1888. Only a ship flying the flag of a state...

...of 1888285 declared that 'the Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and open in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war without distinction of flag' and this international status was in no way affected by the Egyptian nationalisation of the Canal Company...

...the one hand, that the Suez Maritime Canal should ,, always be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war without distinction of flag" including even the vessels of countries at war with Turkey, the territorial sovereign, and on the other...

...article of the Convention states that the canal 'shall always be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag'.141' The convention agreement came out of a British desire to keep the canal open to all ships....

...entirely within Egypt, Article 1 provides that it 'shall always be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag'. Other Articles provide in detail for its neutralisation. The original parties to the Convention were...

...1888 the Constantinople Convention assured that the canal "would always be open 'in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war without distinction of flag' " (cited in Bowie 1974, 4). In 1904 Britain and France agreed that French interests in Morocco would...