France and Britain, 1940-1994 by P. M. H Bell

Author:P. M. H Bell [Bell, P. M. H]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, France, Great Britain, General, Modern, 20th Century
ISBN: 9781317888413
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-25T16:07:30+00:00

1. Keith Kyle, ‘Britain and the Crisis, 1955–1956’, in William Roger Louis and Roger Owen, eds, Suez 1956. The Crisis and its Consequences (Oxford, 1989), p. 111.

2. Evelyn Shuckburgh, Descent to Suez. Diaries 1951–56 (London, 1986), p. 327.

3. Mstair Home, Macmillan, vol. II, 1957–1986 (London, pb edn, 1991), pp. 397, 408; Lennox-Boyd quoted by Kyle, in Louis and Owen, eds, Suez, p. 117.

4. Robert Rhodes James, Anthony Eden (London, 1986), p. 469. Montgomery’s speech in House of Lords quoted in J.A. Sellers, ‘Military Lessons: The British Perspective’, in S.I. Troen and Moshe Shemesh, eds, The Suez–Sinai Crisis, 1956: Retrospective and Reappraisal (London, 1990), pp. 17–18. Monty added that he had replied that it was necessary to know what the object was after Nasser had been knocked off his perch, because that would determine how the operation was to be carried out.

5. Jacques Massu and Henri Le Mire, Vérité sur Suez (Paris, 1978), pp. 8, 53.

6. Paul Gaujac, Suez 1956 (Paris, 1986), p. 54.

7. Distances and sailing times in Sellers, in Troen and Shemesh, eds, Suez–Sinai Crisis, p. 22. Beaufre’s comments in André Beaufre, L’expédition de Suez (Paris, 1967), p. 41.

8. Henri Azeau, Le piège de Suez (Paris, 1964), pp. 134–8, 146–51; Denis Lefèbvre, Guy Mollet. Le mal aimé (Paris, 1992), pp. 255–6.

9. English versions of these two documents are printed in Keith Kyle, Suez (London, 1991), pp. 565–7. Another English version of the Sèvres Protocol, slightly different in wording, is in James, Eden, p. 531. Lefèbvre, Mollet, pp. 253–4, prints the copy preserved in Mollet’s private papers. Kyle, Suez, pp. 316–22, 324–31, gives a detailed account of the Sèvres meetings.

10. Kyle, in Louis and Owen, eds, Suez, p. 127.

11. This passage follows Mordechai Bar-On, ‘David Ben-Gurion and the Sèvres Collusion’, in ibid., p. 146; for the whole article, see pp. 145–60.

12. For details of these last-minute changes of plan, and disputes between the British and French, see Sellers, in Troen and Shemesh, eds, Suez–Sinai Crisis, p. 44; on the naval bombardment, Eric Grove, From Vanguard to Trident: British Naval Policy since World War II (London, 1987), pp. 190–1. Cf. Beaufre, Suez, p. 129, on these few days in Cyprus.

13. Gaujac, Suez, pp. 177–8.

14. Diane B. Kunz, ‘The Importance of Having Money: The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis’, in Louis and Owen, eds, Suez, pp. 215–32, provides a succinct guide to the problems of sterling and the pressure applied by the Americans.

15. Merry and Serge Bromberger, Les secrets de l’expédition de Suez (Paris, 1957), p. 202.

16. Kyle, Suez, p. 3.

17. Bevan, quoted in Hugh Thomas, The Suez Affair (Pelican edn, 1970), p. 85; the Vicky cartoon appears on the front cover of the same book.

18. James, Eden, p. 531.

19. Merry and Serge Bromberger, Secrets.

20. PRO, FO 371/130625, WF1011/1, Jebb to Selwyn Lloyd, 21 Jan. 1957.

21. Home, Macmillan, vol. II, p. 2.

22. Lefèbvre, Mollet: see pp. 245–64 for Suez.

23. Beaufre, Suez, p. 7.

24. Massu and Le Mire, Vérité, p. 8.

25. Lucien Robineau, ‘Les porte-à-faux de l’Affaire de Suez’, Revue Historique des Années, No.

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