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Port Tewfik
Portal, Jane
Poston, Ralph
Powell, Enoch
Powell, Richard
Prickett, Tom
Prussia
Psychological Warfare Branch
Pugsley, Private
Pyramids, battle of the (1798)
Qalqilya, Jordan
Qatar
Quai d’Orsay (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Radio Cairo
Rafah
Ras Nasrami
Raswa bridges
Red Sea
and Egypt’s strategic position
Napoleon’s Suez project
sea cargo under sail
and building of the Suez Canal
Reich, Erich
Reilly, Patrick
Revolutionary Command Council
Reynaud, Paul
Rhineland
Robens, Alf
Rommel, Erwin
Ronsac, Charles
Roosevelt, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Kermit (Kim)
Roosevelt, President Theodore
Rothschild, House of
Rothschild, Lord
Rothschild, Robert
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Marines
Royal Navy
Royal Scots battalion
Russell, George
Russia
Treaty of London (1841)
predatory incursions into the Ottoman Empire
invades Ottoman-controlled Bulgaria
see also Soviet Union
Sabri, Ali
Sadat, Mohamed Anwar El-contacts Axis headquarters in Libya
succeeds Nasser as Egyptian president
Arab Republic of Egypt
purges the pro-Marxist faction
expels the Russians
Sahara Desert
Said Pasha
St Helena
St Katherine’s Monastery
St Tropez
Saleen the Grim
Salem, Salah
Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of
Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of
Sandys, Duncan
Saturday Review
Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (Abd-al-Aziz Ibn Saud)
Saudi Arabia
independence
oil issue
US air base in
border dispute with Britain
alliance with Egypt
finances subversion and terrorism
Saudi Arabian air force
Sayer, Rear Admiral
Sazanov, Sergei
SCUA see Canal Users’ Association
Second World War
Seeley, J.E.
The Expansion of England
Serapeum, Egypt
Service de Documentation et Centre de Espionnage
Sèvres Protocol
Sèvres talks (October 1956)
Seychelles
Sharett, Moshe
Sharm el-Sheikh
Sharon, Ariel
Sharpley, Ann
Sharq-al-Adna (later Voice of Britain)
Shaw, Bernard: John Bull’s Other Island
Shepilov, Dimitri
Shuckburgh, Evelyn
Sidqi Pasha
Simla, HMS
Sinai Desert
Sinai Peninsula
Singapore
Six Day War (1967)
Soames, Christopher
Soggers (bren-gunner)
Soustelle, Jacques
South Africa
South-East Asia Treaty Organisation
Southampton
Soviet Union
joins Allies in Second World War
expansionism
potential attack on Britain
Ordzhonikidze affair
arms deal with Egypt
Mollet’s threat
delegation at the Commons
invades Hungary
appeal for joint US-Soviet military action
see also Russia
Spaak, Paul-Henri
Spearman, Sir Alec
Special Operations Executive
Spectator, The
Stack, Sir Lee
Stalin, Joseph
Standard Oil Company
Stevenson, Sir Ralph
Stevenson, William
Stockwell, Lieutenant General Sir Hugh
commander of land forces
personality
aplomb under fire
and invasion plan
Beaufre frustrated by
accepts Telescope plan
advances planned assault date
plans battle at Port Said
memorable return to Tyne
ceasefire message
philosophical attitude
and the Norwegian UN contingent
and Moorhouse’s kidnapping
Stone, General
Strachey, John
Straits of Tiran
Stuart, Douglas
Sudan
siege of Khartoum (1884)
death of Gordon
the Khalifa keeps Sudan in anarchy
battle of Omdurman (1898)
internecine warfare
Egyptians given unrestricted entry into the Sudan
implicit Egyptian sovereignty
Churchill wants to send a military force
independence
Suez
Canal Company offices
and invasion plan
and ‘The Plan’
Suez Agreement (1954)
Suez Canal
seen as Europe’s lifeline
Napoleon’s project
built by the French
opening of (1869)
total cost
Britain’s shares
importance as the route to India
and grand scheme for imperial economic union
First World War
Maurice’s assessment
chief thoroughfare to Europe for essential oil supplies
nationalisation
acquiescence in changes to canal management
deepening of
first major improvement
Suez pilots
Britain and France concede Egyptian control (1957)
Suez Canal Company
Suez Canal Zone
British withdrawal to
British base
strengthening of
systematic harassment of British troops
accelerating cost
British troops leave (June 1956)
reinforcement of
Suez Committee (Egypt Committee)
Suez Committee of Five
Suez Group
Suez war
Musketeer operation planned
legal aspects of armed intervention
call-up
rebellious mood among reservists
lack of information
military hardware in poor condition
French preparations
both cabinet and French unhappy with the plan
Musketeer Revise
French emissaries outline plan at Chequers
Sèvres Protocol
Israel invades Egypt (29 October 1956)
the ultimatum
Anglo-French air attacks on Egyptian airfields (31 October)
start of Operation Musketeer
air strikes
British propaganda
Telescope plan
inadequacy of British fleet
calls for a ceasefire
opposition to the war
broadcasting and the media
Domiat incident
parachute landings
seaborne landings
ceasefire
deaths at Suez
repercussions
a military failure and a political disaster
Suleiman the Magnificent
Suvla, HMS
Swinburn, James
Sykes-Picot Agreement
Syria
Syrian army
Tahera Palace, Cairo
Tailyour, Lieutenant Colonel
Taper (Bernard Levin)
Tel-el-Kebir, battle of (1882)
Telescope, Operation
Templer, Sir Gerald
Tewfik Pasha
Theseus, HMS (aircraft carrier)
Thistleton (bren-gunner)
Thomas, Abel
Thorne, Tony
Thorneycroft, Peter
Thorpe, D.R.
Tichener, J.L.B.
Time magazine
Times, The
Tito, President Josip
Toulon, France
Transjordan (later Jordan)
Transjordanian army
Transport Command
Travis, Eileen
Treasury
Treaty of London (1841)
Treaty of Rome
Trevelyan, Sir Humphrey
Trickey, Eric
Tripartite Agreement (1950)
Truman, President Harry S.
TUDEH (People’s Party)
Tunisia
Turco-Iraq Pact (1955)
Turkey
and France
the ‘sick man of Europe’
dire financial straits
and Russian invasion of Bulgaria
1888 Convention
abdication of Abdul Hamid
relations with Germany
First World War
Nasser’s unexpected concession
Turco-Iraqi Pact (1955)
keen for Western aid
Canal Users’ conference
Turkish navy
Turton, Robin
Tussum, Egypt
Tyne, HMS
Um Katef
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Republic
United Nations (UN)
Charter
Security Council debate (October 1956)
Security Council
General Assembly
Eden’s exercise in self-deception
involvement in the Canal Zone
Israel’s refusal to withdraw troops
British handover to the UN force in Egypt
former French colonies join
United States
First World War
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Roosevelt’s meetings with Kings Saud and Farouk
post-war isolationism
exhaustion of loans to Britain
and creation of Israel
military education of Egyptian officers
at odds with Britain over global strategy
defence budget
increasingly active in the Middle East
aid to Egypt
atomic weapons as the first line of defence
arms negotiations with Egypt
finances French war in Indo-China
and the build-up to invasion of Egypt
attitude to Israel
alienation of
US nationals evacuated to Alexandria
leads world pressure for a ceasefire
anti-Americanism
arms supplies to Israel
Macmillan works to restore special relationship
oil interests see under oil
US Sixth Fleet
Valletta, Malta
Vaux, Second Lieutenant (later Major-General)
Venice conference (1956)
Vermars conference (June 1956)
Versailles Peace Conference see Paris Peace Conference
Victoria, Queen
Vienna
Viet Minh
Vietnam
Villa Bonnier de la Chapelle, Sèvres
Villacoublay military airfield
Voice of Britain (previously Sharq al-Adna)
Voice of the Arabs
Wadi Halfa, Sudan
Wafd, the
Wallach, Colonel Yehudah
War Office
Waterhouse, Captain Charles
West Bank
West Germany
West Yorks Regiment
Western Desert
Western European Union
White, Dick
White, Sir Michael
Whittaker, T.W.
Wilhelm II, Kaiser
Wilson, President Woodrow
Wingate, Sir Reginald
Wolseley, Sir Garnet
Woodhouse, Christopher
Woods, Peter
World Bank
World Court
Worsley, Major
Wright, Denis
Wright, Sir Michael
Wright, Paul
Wright, Peter
Wyatt, Woodrow
Yalta conference
Yemen
Yoffe, Colonel Avraham
Yom Kippur War
Young Turks
Zaghloul, Saad
Zaki, Colonel Rauf Mahfouz
Zarb, Mr
Zionist movement
Zokharov, Marshal
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