1. J. W. Young, ‘Cold War and Detente with Moscow’, in Young (ed.), The Foreign Policy of Churchill’s Peacetime Administration, pp. 55–80; Winston Churchill’s Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War, 1951–5 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 290–314; M. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. VIII, ‘Never Despair’, 1945–1965 (London, 1988), pp. 827–45.
2. CAB 128/29, fol. 210, CM23(55)9, Secret, 14 July 1955; B. H. Reid, ‘The “Northern Tier” and the Baghdad Pact’, in Young (ed.), The Foreign Policy of Churchill’s Peacetime Administration, pp. 159–79; W. R. Louis and R. Robinson, ‘The Imperialism of Decolonization’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, XXII (1994), pp. 462–511.
3. CAB 128/30 Pt 2, fos 625–6, CM74(56)1, Confidential Annex, 25 October 1956; see, generally, Ovendale, The Origins of the Arab—Israeli Wars, pp. 168–87; S. W. Lucas, Divided We Stand: Britain, the United States and the Suez Crisis (London, 1991); Kyle, Suez; G. Warner, ‘The United States and the Suez Crisis’, International Affairs, vol. 67 (1991), pp. 303–17.
4. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, John Foster Dulles Papers, 1951–9, General Correspondence and Memoranda Series, Box no. 2, File Strictly Confidential E-H(2) Gruenther to Dulles, 29 October 1956; Ann Whitman File, Ann Whitman Diary Series, Box no. 8, File November 1956, Diary ACW(2), Diary 3 November 1956; FRUS 1955–7(16), pp. 745–6, Editorial note; CAB 128/30 Pt 2, fol. 641A, CM77(56), Confidential Annex, 2 November 1956; Geoffrey Warner, ‘Review Article the United States and the Suez Crisis’, International Affairs, vol. 67 (1991), pp. 303–17.
5. FO 115/4545, VR1091/960G, Record of conversation between Lloyd and Elliot at Washington on 18 November 1956; Ovendale, The Origins of the Arab—Israeli Wars, p. 181; for a critique of Allen Dulles’s later claims before the Senate that he had offered forewarnings see R. J. Aldrich, ‘Intelligence, Anglo-American Relations and the Suez Crisis, 1956’, Intelligence and National Security, IX (July 1994), pp. 544–54.