Suez Canal, 1953-12

File

Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/75

Scope and Contents

Press cuttings of an article by JA on keeping British forces in Suez, and a memorandum on the Canal Zone [Egypt], particularly the security of the Canal, the maintenance of the Canal base and the location of Britain’s strategic reserve in the Middle East.

Dates

Creation: 1953-12

Creator

From the Fonds: Amery, Harold Julian, 1919 - 1996 (Baron Amery of Lustleigh, politician) (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.