Correspondence on the stand taken by the Suez Canal Emergency Committee in Parliament over the withdrawal of British troops from the Canal Zone, with correspondents including: Leo Amery (5); Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, Acting Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph; 1st Lord Hore-Belisha on changing tactics and finding an alternative to the Canal (2); 1st Lord Killearn [earlier Miles Lampson] (8); Edward Martell, Editor of the Recorder; 1st Lord Hankey on subjects including the threat from the United States (8); John Selwyn-Lloyd [Minister of State, Foreign Office]; Cyril Lord (2); Charles Waterhouse (9); Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale]; Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams, BBC board of governors, on a BBC broadcast about Suez; [Edward] Lancelot Mallalieu; Christopher Holland-Martin (2); Sir Douglas Savory (2); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe] (2); John Biggs-Davison, Conservative Research Department; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Britain, enclosing the text of his speech to the Anglo-Israeli Club on the Middle East; [John] Enoch Powell (3); Sir Robert Boothby; Sir [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on subjects including Patrick Domvile (2); Major-General Laurence Grand (2); John Morrison [later 1st Lord Margadale] (2); Anthony Fell; Lord Hinchingbrooke; Alan Gomme-Duncan; Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell (3); 1st Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope; 1st Lord Vansittart; Robert Ryder; 3rd Lord Cromer [earlier Lord Errington]; Donald Anderson; Ian Horobin; 2nd Lord Hailsham [later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; [George] Beresford Craddock; 1st Lord Bruce of Melbourne; 1st Lord Simon; Sir Guy Lloyd (2); [Arthur] Douglas Dodds-Parker (2); 1st Lord Rotherwick [earlier Herbert Cayzer]; [Edward] Henry Legge-Bourke; 2nd Lord Rennell [earlier Francis Rodd]; Colin Coote [Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph]; Charles Mott-Radclyffe; Tufton Beamish [later Lord Chelwood] (2); Dermot Morrah, Editor of the Round Table; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier William Max Aitken]; 2nd Lord Birkenhead [earlier Lord Furneaux]; Field Marshal Sir William Slim; [Arthur] Vere Harvey; Sir Walter Smart (2).

Also includes notes for Leo Amery on setting up the Emergency Committee.