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Whitehall and the Suez Crisis
About this book
This review of the Suez Crisis gives a chapter each to such key players as the Chief of the Imperial General Staff and the Secretary to the Cabinet. It incorporates 1956 releases from the Public Record Office to reassess the role of officials and the process of policymaking.
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Index
Adenauer, Konrad 94
Aldrich, Winthrop 172, 204, 213, 215
Alexandria, plans to invade 36–9, 71
Algeria, British policy towards 84
ALPHA project 13, 161
Amery, Julian 120–1
Amory, Heathcoat 70
Anglo-Egyptian Defence Agreement (1954) 13, 203
Aswan High Dam project 16, 82, 133, 161–2
Baghdad Pact 13, 33–4, 81, 84–5, 93, 161, 162, 204
Barclay, Roderick 200–1
BBC
Cadogan, Sir Alexander as Chairman 134–43, 224
and Kirkpatrick, Sir Ivone 207–8
political broadcasts 136–40, 145(n26)
Beaufre, General 40
Bedell Smith, Walter 158, 172
Beeley, Harold 48, 207, 214
Beith, John 81
Ben-Gurion, David 149, 150, 212
Bermuda Conference 174–5
Bevin, Ernest 80, 222
Birch, Nigel 74
bombing, British policy 190
Bottomley, Norman 139
Bourgès-Maunoury, Maurice 91, 149
Boyle, Dermot 4, 32, 223
Boyle, Sir Edward 2
Bridges, Sir Edward 2, 65–6, 75, 170, 229
British Embassy in Cairo
destruction of records 11, 12, 25(n10)
role in Egyptian politics 12, 13–14
Brockman, Ronald 103
Brook, Norman
character of 64
collusion 74, 75–7
Defence (Transition) Committee 5, 66–8, 75, 206
doubts of 3, 75
and Eden, Anthony 65–6, 68–9, 76
Egypt Committee 68–9, 72, 73–4
...Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- British Foreign and Colonial Policy
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Alternatives to Nasser: Humphrey Trevelyan, Ambassador to Egypt
- ‘A Modern Major General’: General Sir Gerald Templer, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
- Playing the Role of a Cassandra: Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, Senior Legal Advisor to the Foreign Office
- The Mandarins' Mandarin: Sir Norman Brook, Secretary of the Cabinet
- In the Know? Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Ambassador to France
- The Limits of Opposition: Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff
- The Missing Link? Patrick Dean, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee
- Cadogan's Last Fling: Sir Alexander Cadogan, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC
- In the Company of Policy Makers: Sir Donald Logan, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- Transatlantic Diplomat: Sir Roger Makins, Ambassador to Washington and Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury
- The Diplomats' Diplomat: Sir Pierson Dixon, Ambassador to the United Nations
- The Past as Matrix: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- Abstracts
- Notes on Contributors
- Index