The Tragedy of the Anglo-Egyptian Settlement of 1954
This chapter demonstrates the consistency of British aims through 1954, when 80,000 troops began the evacuation of the Canal Zone. The withdrawal was completed a month before Nasser's act of nationalization. On the British side the purpose was to indicate that Egypt would be treated on the basis of equality and that the old era of military domination had at last ended. The invasion of 1956 thus contradicted the policy of Sir Anthony Eden himself, who as Foreign Secretary and then as Prime Minister had pursued a course of reconciliation. A study of the 1954 settlement reveals not merely the irony of the reversal of course in 1956 but also the awareness of how calamitous and irreversible it would be if British forces again invaded Egypt.
Keywords: Anglo-Egyptian Settlement, Canal Zone, nationalization, British forces, invasion, military domination
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .