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funding
Nasser’s July 1956 speech
work starts on (1960)
Athos (cargo vessel)
Atta, Nana Sir Ofori
Attlee, Clement
Auriol, President Vincent
Australia
Austria
Baghdad, Iraq
Baghdad Pact (1955)
Bahrain
Baldwin, Hanson
Balfour, Arthur
Balfour Declaration
Balkans
Bank of England
Bar-On, Mordechai
Barbour, Walworth
Barjot, Vice-Admiral D’Escadre
Barker, General Sir Evelyn
Barnett, Air Chief Marshal Sir Denis
Basra, Iraq
Basra, Vilayat of
BBC
Beaufre, General André
Musketeer operation planned
personality
preparations for the campaign
unhappy with Musketeer
and Israel
attempts to speed up the operation
leaves Suez
Beaverbrook press
Bedouins
Beeley, Sir Harold
Begin, Menahem
Belgium
Bell, Moberley
Ben Bella, Ahmed
Ben-Gurion, David
and the Negev
worried about Egypt’s Soviet weaponry
need for dependable allies
and partnership with France
in Paris
and The Plan
Sèvres talks
suspects a double-cross
and the Sinai campaign
and collusion issue
Bermuda summit
Bevan, Aneurin
Bevin, Ernest
Birch, Nigel
Birch Grove, Horsted Keynes, East Sussex
Bishop, Freddy
Black, Eugene
Black Saturday (January 26, 1952)
Blessed Movement of Free Officers
Blunt, Wilfred
Board of Trade
Bombay
Bonnier de la Chapelle, Ferdinand
Booth, Captain Roger
Bottomley, Norman
Bourgès-Maunoury, Maurice
Bournemouth
Boursicot, Pierre
Bowker, Sir James
‘bowler hatting’
Boyle, Edward
Boyle, Harry
Bredin, Colonel Bela
Brindisi
Britain
restores Egypt to Ottoman rule
Treaty of London (1841)
attitude to building of the Suez Canal
Canal shares
occupation of Egypt (1882)
control of Egypt
mandates over former Ottoman territories
1922 Declaration
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
and Palestine
post-war debt
economy
Commonwealth
and creation of Israel
no longer able to play the world power
at odds with US over global strategy
joint forces headquarters moves to Cyprus (1952)
border dispute with Saudi Arabia
and nationalisation of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Suez Agreement (1954)
total energy needs (1956)
oil reserves
leaves the Suez Canal (June 1956)
relations with Israel
propaganda
inadequacy of the British fleet
see also under Suez war
British army
occupation of Egypt (1882)
withdrawal from Egypt
entitlement to remain in Egypt until 1956
continued presence in Egypt
servicemen’s attitude to Egyptians
harassed in the Canal Zone
clashes with Egyptian police
armoured regiments
reforms
British embassy, Cairo
British embassy, Tel Aviv
British Empire
British Petroleum (previously Anglo-Iranian Oil Company)
Brook, Norman
Brooke, Captain Ronald
Brown, Admiral
Budapest
Bughdadi, Abd al-Latif al-
Bulganin, Marshal Nikolai
Bulgaria
Bulwark, HMS (aircraft carrier)
Buraimi Oasis
Bureau Sanitaire police barracks, Ismailia
Burgess, Guy
Burke, Admiral Arleigh
Burns, General Tommy
Butler, Brigadier Mervyn (Tubby)
Butler, Richard Austen, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
Byroade, Henry
Caccia, Sir Harold
Cadogan, Lord
Cairo
Napoleon in
and the building of the Suez Canal
Harry Boyle on
Canal Company offices
rebellion in (1919)
Second World War
British troops move out
oil pipeline from Suez
Black Saturday
conference of Arab prime ministers (l955)
response to the invasion threat
Menzies-Nasser negotiations
Cairo-Suez railway
Cambodia
Cameron, James
Canada
Canal Users’ Association (SCUA)
Cape route
Caracol police barracks, Ismailia
Careful, HMS
Carlton Gardens, St James’s, London
Carmal, Moshe
Casey, Dick
Catroux, General
Cecil, Lord David
Central Task Force (Israel)
Chabans-Delmas, Jacques
Challe, General Maurice
Chamberlain, Joseph
Chambers, Ken
Channel Tunnel
Chapman, Brian
Charlton, Michael
Chateau-Jobert, Colonel Pierre
Chauvel, Jean
Chequers, Buckinghamshire
China
Churchill, Randolph
Churchill, Sir Winston
as Colonial Secretary
at Yalta
his party’s defeat at the polls
criticism of Eden
wants a hard line on Egypt
underestimates Eisenhower
and Iran
Operation Boot (Ajax)
favours a counter-coup
letter to Eisenhower
suggests sending a military force to the Sudan
surrenders the premiership
compared with Eden
and Israel
leads plaudits for Eden on his resignation
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
and Nasser
backs a military programme for Egyptian army officers
and Buraimi
Allen Dulles heads the CIA
Operation Boot (Ajax)
and Foster Dulles
Clark, Captain D.M.J.
Clark, William
Claude-Bernard
cold war
Colonial Development Act (1945)
Colville, John
Common Market
Commonwealth
Constantinople (later Istanbul)
Convention (Constantinople, 1888)
Cooper, Chester L.
Cooper, Sir Frank
Coopers Lane Camp, CAD Bramley, Hampshire
Copeland, Miles
Cornut-Gentille, Bernard
Couve de Murville, Maurice
Coward, Nöel
Cowley, Major-General John
Cowper, Dr Henry
Crabb, Commander Lionel ‘Buster’
Cramb, J.A.
Crane, HMS
Crewe, Colin
Crimean War
Cromer, Countess of
Cromer, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of
Crook, Lieutenant Colonel Paul
Crossman, Richard
Curran, Charles
Curzon, Lord
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Daily Express
Daily Herald
Daily Mail
Daily Mirror
Daily Telegraph
Damascus, Syria
Dardanelles
Darlan, General François
Darling, Brigadier
Davidi, Ahron
Dayan, General Moshe
de Lesseps, Ferdinand
Dean, Patrick
Decoy, HMS (destroyer)
Delmer, Sefton
Denshawai incident
dervishes
Desert Frontier Force
Deuxième Régiment de Parachutistes Coloniaux
Devonport
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Dhofar
Diamond (destroyer)
Diana, HMS
Dicey, Edward
Dickson, Air Chief Marshal Sir William
Dien Bien Phu
Dillon, Douglas
Dimona, Israel
Disraeli, Benjamin
Ditchfield, Marine
Dixon, Sir Pierson
Domiat (Egyptian frigate)
Douglas-Home, Alec, Baron Home of the Hirsel
Duchess (destroyer)
Dugdale, Thomas
Dulles, Allen
Dulles, John Foster
personality
Eisenhower on
Eden on
expects Soviet incursion into Iran
tour of North Africa and the Middle East
Middle East defence
and Eden
Allen and Byroade’s failed meeting with Nasser
failed Washington conference
meeting with Hussein
and the build-up to invasion of Egypt
grievance over Soviet-Egyptian relations
Canal Users’ conference
and Cairo negotiations
angered by Eden’s speech
on SCUA
ill-health
calls for an immediate ceasefire
asks Lloyd why Suez expedition was cancelled
Dunkirk evacuation
Durnford-Slater, Admiral
E-Tor, Gulf of Suez
East Africa
Eban, Abba
Eden, Sir Anthony (later Earl of Avon)
signs Anglo-Egyptian Treaty (1936)
during Second World War
on empire
Churchill’s criticism of
treaty negotiations
and Black Saturday
realistic approach
personality
underestimates Eisenhower
on Dulles
tries to win US support for a joint strategy
underestimates Nasser
and the Northern Tier
meets Nasser in Cairo
becomes prime minister (April 1955)
his Cabinet
and Randolph Churchill
compared with Churchill
change in political stance
failed Washington conference
ill-health
disastrous Commons performance
exchange with Nutting on Nasser
response to Nasser’s nationalisation of Suez Canal
chairs Suez Committee
and Indo-China
agrees to invasion plan
urgent appeal to Eisenhower
television broadcast (August 1956)
Canal Users’ conference
Red scare
speech angers Dulles
talks in Paris (September 1956)
attitude to The Plan
Palais Matignon meeting (October)
Sèvres talks
tries to put media under government control
premature announcement of a ceasefire
opposition to
tells Mollet of ceasefire decision
departs for Jamaica
collusion issue
retirement
defends Suez
lack of understanding of the country he was governing
Millard on
Eden, Clarissa
Edgar Bonnet (ocean-going tug)
Edgar, Donald
Egypt
natural trade junction of three continents
Mamelukes
Napoleon’s Egypt Expedition
restored to Ottoman rule
becomes a rising power in the Middle East
British control
British occupation (1882)
religion
growth of nationalism
Denshawai incident
First World War
independence
1922 Declaration
Ahmed Fuad Pasha styled King of Egypt
Muslim Brotherhood
declares war on Germany (1945)
population
Black Saturday (January 26, 1952)
military coup (July 1952)
Farouk abdicates
Fuad II deposed
US aid
no longer central to defence of Middle East
Suez Agreement (1954)
Aswan Dam project
arms issue
British intelligence network in
recognition of communist China
and Algeria
freezing of assets
Israel invades (29 October 1956)
arrival of UN force
Anglo-French withdrawal
five-year plan
temporary union with Syria
unrealised fear of a Soviet takeover
see also Suez war
Egypt Committee see Suez Committee
Egyptian Air Force
Intelligence
Egyptian Army
Intelligence Headquarters
Egyptian Gazette
Egyptian intelligence
Egyptian Ministry of Defence
Egyptian police
Eichelberger, James
Eighteen Nation proposals
Eilat, Israel
Eisenhower, Dwight
belief in rational discussion
and Dulles
personality
and arms negotiations with Egypt
and build-up to invasion of Egypt
Canal Users’ conference
response to Eden’s Red scare letter
attitude to Israel
evacuation of American nationals from Egypt
and Israeli attack on Egypt
on his ‘double crossing’ allies
remonstrates with Eden
presidential election
Bulganin message
becomes aware of Eden’s duplicity
Eitan, General Raful
El Alamein, battle of
El Arish
El Banna, Hassan
El Cap
El Firdan swing bridge, near Ismailia
El Gamil airfield, Egypt
El Qantara
Elizabeth II, Queen
Ely, General Paul
Empire Day
Empire Fowey (troop ship)
Empire Parkeston (troop ship)
EOKA
Erskine, General Sir George
Ethiopia (previously Abyssinia)
Eugenie, Empress of France
European Coal and Steel Community
European Community
European ‘Six’
European Union
Evans, Kate
Evans, Petty Officer
Evans, Sir Harold
Evans, Stanley
Evening Standard
Ewer, W.N.
Express, L’
Exxon
Fadden, Arthur
Faisal I, King of Iraq
Faisal II, King
Famagusta, Cyprus
Farouk, King of Egypt
in London
Italian advisers
British ultimatum to
Roosevelt’s talks with
and Arab attack on Israel
dissident forces against him
declared King of the Sudan as well as of Egypt
tells his queen to prepare for exile
Black Saturday
replaces Nahas with Ali Maher
and military coup (July 1952)
abdication in favour of his infant son
sails for Naples
sale of his possessions
High Dam scheme
Fashoda, Sudan (later Kodok)
Faure, Edgar
Fawzi, Dr Mahmoud
Fayid, Egypt
fedayeen
fellahin
Fergusson, Brigadier Bernard
Fifth Republic (France)
Figaro, Le
First Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment
First World War
Fitzmaurice, Sir Gerald
Fleming, Ian
FLN see National Liberation Front Foreign Aid Bill
Foreign Office
Foster, Andrew
Fouquières, Colonel de
Fourteen Points (Wilson)
Fourth Republic (France)
France
Egypt Expedition
and Turkey
attitude to building of Suez Canal
Franco-Prussian war (1870)
North African colonial possessions
wants Canal to be declared a neutral thoroughfare
mandates over former Ottoman territories
oil interests
and empire
post-war debt
economy
attitude to Suez Canal and Canal Company
war in Indo-China
and Algeria
preparations for Suez campaign
relations with Israel
Israeli delegation in Paris
emissaries outline plan at Chequers
Sèvres talks (October 1956)
approval rating
see also Suez war
Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria
Franco-Prussian war (1870)
Freeborn, Richard
French Air Force
French army
French Ministry of Defence
French navy
French Revolution
Friend, Major James
Frontier Regiment (Egypt)
Fuad I, King
Fuad II, King of Egypt (Ahmed Fuad)
Fullick, Roy
Gaitskell, Hugh
elected leader ofthe Labour Party
and build-up to invasion
accuses Eden
broadcast by
Gallipoli
Gamil bridge
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
Gaulle, Charles de
Gaza Strip
Gazier, Albert
Gazin, General
General Gordon’s Last Stand (Joy)
Georges-Leygues
Georges-Picot, Jacques
