Letter from Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretary to WSC] to WSC on subjects including his discussion with the Prime Minister's Principle Secretary, Freddy Bishop, relating to the Suez Crisis and enclosing (included) a letter from Bishop outlining the latest developments in the Suez Crisis, 17 Oct 1956

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/2/21/41-45

Scope and Contents

Other subjects of the letter from Anthony Montague Browne include the situation in Cyprus [the Cyprus Emergency] and [John] Harding [Governor of Cyprus, later 1st Lord Harding of Petherton] being confident that with enough troops he could "break the back of the terrorism in Cyprus in a few months"; greetings from Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook]; draft notes from the [Commonwealth Relations Office] for a speech by WSC [for the unveiling of a statue of Jan Smuts, which WSC was not able to attend due to ill health]; telegrams from the Foreign Office for WSC; and thanking WSC for having Nonie [Anthony Montague Browne's wife] to stay [at La Pausa, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France].

The letter from Freddy Bishop [Prime Minister's Principle Secretary] outlines the latest developments relating to the Suez Crisis including the debate in the [United Nations] Security Council and the [Soviet Union] vetoing a resolution, the Prime Minister [Anthony Eden] having visited the French Prime Minister [Guy Mollet] in Paris to discuss their next steps; and a "complicated situation" between Iraq, Jordan and Israel relating to Iraqi troops wanting to enter Jordan.

Dates

Creation: 17 Oct 1956

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

2 item(s)

Additional Description

Custodial History

On cataloguing these items were attached to a piece of paper annotated "2/130" [CHUR 2/130].

Related Materials

Related to the Churchill Papers [from CHUR 2/130]. Particularly related to CHUR 2/130/313-348 drafts of a note/statement by WSC on the Suez Canal, correspondence and a publication on the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company.

Further material relating to the speech WSC was due to give an the unveiling of a statue of Jan Smuts (but then cancelled attendance because of poor health) including text of the speech can be found in the Churchill Papers, CHUR 2/347/126-153.

Bibliography

An extract of this letter from Montague Browne is published in 'Winston S. Churchill' volume VIII 'Never Despair' by Martin Gilbert, p.1219 and the full letter is published in 'The Churchill Documents' volume 23 'Never Flinch, Never Weary, November 1951 to February 1965' by Martin Gilbert and Larry P Arnn, p.2140.

The letter from Bishop is published in 'Winston S. Churchill' volume VIII 'Never Despair' by Martin Gilbert, p.1218 and 'The Churchill Documents' volume 23 'Never Flinch, Never Weary, November 1951 to February 1965' by Martin Gilbert and Larry P Arnn, pp.2141-2142.