Securing Peace in Europe, 1945–62 pp 260-276 | Cite as
NATO, ‘Alliance’ and the Suez Crisis
Abstract
Given the wealth of paradoxes surrounding the Suez War of 1956 — Britain colluding with France, her historic rival in the Middle East, and Israel, the state formed against British wishes in 1948, against Egypt, Britain’s long-time ‘ally’ in the Middle East; the United States and the Soviet Union joining in the United Nations against the Anglo—French—Israeli attack — it is appropriate that the effect of the crisis upon NATO should appear contradictory. Two of the Alliance’s most prominent members, Britain and France, were forced by a third, the United States, to accept a humiliating cease-fire and withdrawal, yet within weeks of the war, the Allies’ Foreign Ministers convened in Paris for a NATO meeting in a spirit of reconciliation and harmony.
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