Abstract
The brief Suez war was over, but the problems it raised remained. In spite of the independent action of two of its most eminent members, the United Nations emerged to a greater strength than it had shown hitherto.1 It had been unable to enforce the armistice terms after the 1948–9 Arab-Israeli war, but now the Canadian Foreign Minister Lester Pearson’s plan for a peace-keeping force was adopted. The United Nations force would remain to keep the warring powers away from each other’s throats, without insisting on disarmament first. ‘Without pretending to either the punitive or the enforcing function of an army, it was yet going beyond the exhortations, the protests, the resolutions of the conference table. It was inserting itself non-violently but yet physically, visibly, tangibly into a situation which mere diplomacy could not resolve.…’2 When the nations concerned accepted the idea of United Nations’ action, the peace-keeping force moved in, and by 22 December the evacuation of British troops was completed.
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Notes on Chapter 8
H. G. Nicholas, ‘Progress at the United Nations’, in A. Moncrieff (ed.), Suez Ten Years After (London, 1967), pp. 127–34.
Sir Anthony Eden, Full Circle (London, 1960), p. 557.
Paul Bareau and C. M. Woodhouse in Moncrieff, op. cit. pp. 24–9, and Hugh Thomas, The Suez Affair (London, 1967), pp. 145–6.
Robert Murphy, Diplomat among Warriors (London, 1964), pp. 463–3. Mr Macmillan’s autobiography has not yet reached this period of his career.
Anthony Nutting, No End of a Lesson: the Story of Suez (London, 1967) explains why one junior Minister resigned on the issue.
Moshe Dayan, Diary of the Sinai Campaign (London, 1965), p. 207.
For the constitution and policy of the Ba’ath Party see Sylvia Haim (ed.), Arab Nationalism: An Anthology (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1964), pp. 233–49.
See J. Eayrs (ed.), The Commonwealth and Suez; a Documentary Survey (Oxford, 1964).
Pierre Rondot, ‘July Days’, in Changing Patterns of the Middle East 1919–1958 (London, 1961), pp. 13–22.
Malcolm Kerr, ‘Coming to terms with Nasser’, in International Affairs (January, 1967), pp. 73–6.
Gillian King, Imperial Outpost — Aden (London, 1964), p. 48.
R.I.I.A. Documents on International Affairs, 1961 (London, 1965), p. 771.
Sir Charles Johnston, The View from Steamer Point: Being an Account of Three Tears in Aden (London, 1964), p. 195.
David Holden, Farewell to Arabia (London, 1966), pp. 69–115
For the arguments for the British leaving Aden see Elizabeth Monroe, ‘British bases in the Middle East; assets or liabilities?’, in International Affairs, vol. 42 (1966), pp. 24–34. For arguments against see J. B. Kelly, ‘The future in Arabia’, in the same, pp. 619–40.
Alfred Grosser, ‘General de Gaulle and the foreign policy of the Fifth Republic’, in International Affairs, vol. 39, 1963.
David C. Gordon, North Africa’s French Legacy, 1954–1962 (Cambridge, Mass., 1962), pp. 16–22.
R.I.I.A. Survey of International Affairs, 1959–60 (London, 1964), pp. 350–1.
Daniel Same, L’Affaire Ben Barka (Paris, 1966).
Speech of 29 September, quoted in Peter Mansfield, Nasser’s Egypt (London, 1965), p. 63.
Georges Friedmann, The End of the Jewish People? (English edition, London, 1967).
Georgiana G. Stevens, Jordan River Partition (Stanford, 1965), pp. 17–32.
Elizabeth Monroe, in The Times, 11 May, 1965.
Randolph S. and Winston S. Churchill, The Six Day War (London, 1967).
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Williams, A. (1968). The Years after Suez. In: Britain and France in the Middle East and North Africa, 1914–1967. The Making of the Twentieth Century. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15279-7_9
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