JH/POL/PARL/60 - [Suez crisis]

JH/POL/PARL/60

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[Suez crisis]

1956
1978

32 items Mixed

Egypt -- History -- Intervention, 1956

Contains material relating to the Suez Canal which began in 7/56 when President Nasser of Egypt seized the canal. Three months later Britain and France agreed in secret to reassert control of this shipping route and a seaborne invasion began. Includes press cuttings; the text of JH's speech at Kenninghall on 4/8/56; details from the Egyptian embassy of the second part of a conference held in Saudi Arabia in 9/56 [the first session being held on 7/3/56]; a transcript of a speech by Anthony Nutting (Minister of State for Foreign Affairs) at the Suez conference; memoranda of the United Nations concerning the UN Emergency Force; the Conservative Party's Weekly Newsletter; the United Nations newsletter; a memorandum to the Conservative members of the United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Conservative Party addresses; copies of the Arab Newsletter of the Arab student union in the UK; a transcript of a speech [by JH?] in Woodbridge on the Tories' handling of the Suez crisis; Sir Anthony Eden's broadcast of 3/11/56; a published letter by Sir Winston Churchill on his support for the Government on the Egyptian issue; and 1978 press cuttings of extracts from Selwyn Lloyd's book, Suez 1956. Lloyd was the Foreign Secretary at the time of the crisis.