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Article: Disregarding the Atlantic "special relationship": the Eden Cabinet in the lead-up to the invasion of the Suez Canal zone.(Report)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- March 22, 2009
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I. British policy in the Middle East and growing strains in the Anglo-American partnership in the mid-1950s
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the United Kingdom played a major military and strategic role in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. Its military presence extended from southeast Asia to Libya, with a large base in the Suez Canal zone as its principal stronghold. By the end of the war, France, Britain's traditional rival in the Middle East, had been unceremoniously expelled from Syria and Lebanon. Yet British hegemony was more apparent than real in both economic and military terms. As early as 1947, in Greece, American influence ...