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Transcripts of interviews relating to the political, diplomatic and military aspects of the Suez Crisis of 1956. Eleven of the interviewees were former Foreign Office officials and diplomats, three were Private Secretaries to Sir Anthony Eden, the Prime Minister at the time of the Suez Crisis, four were from the military establishment and three were politicians (including a Cabinet member, a Conservative backbench MP and a front bench Labour MP). The interviews therefore tended to centre on diplomatic relations between the UK, the USA and the Middle East, the work of the Foreign Office during the Crisis, Eden's personality and his relationship with the Foreign Office, and the planning for operation MUSKETEER REVISE, the Anglo-French offensive in Egypt. The transcripts were later supplemented by copies of the Protocol of Sèvres (24 Oct 1956), which recorded the agreements reached between the governments of Great Britain, France and Israel during discussions held in France between 22-24 Oct 1956, on a joint politico-military response to Egypt's nationalisation of the Suez Canal. |
