In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France ... the creation of the canal in 1869, and the long history of British intervention in Egypt - all with ...

Lester B. Pearson was the Canadian Minister of External Affairs when he won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in resolving the Suez Canal Crisis. Pictured here, Pearson displaying the Nobel ...

In the midst of a whirl of activity, it is easy to forget history. Nearly forty years before ... not by themselves have constituted an international crisis. For the United Kingdom, however, Suez was ...

In November, 115 container vessels passed through the canal, a 72 percent drop from the 422 that passed through a year ago, ...

Egypt said on Saturday it had successfully tested a new 10 km channel near the southern end of the Suez Canal, even as its ...

with emphasis on the 1956 Suez crisis and the 1954 Indochina affair. Totally lacking is the Churchillian sweep-of-history approach. The writing is pedestrian, often dull, and the explanations on ...

In late-July 1956, three months before the Suez Crisis, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden wrote a letter to U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower. At this stage it had become clear that Egyptian ...

Diverting shipping away from the Suez Canal cost Egypt nearly $7bn this year as revenues dropped by 60% year over year. The ...

of some of the underlying causes of the current Egyptian crisis is cogent ... to fears surrounding the continued operations of the Suez Canal, amidst social unrest caused by massive riots against ...

So Israel withdrew, but for them the Suez Crisis was a military triumph ... The series follows the history of the conflict through the mid-late 20th century, focussing on major incidents, pressure ...

And it failed miserably. That war, known as the Suez Crisis, is widely considered the beginning of the end of the British Empire. Egypt became the most powerful Arab country for the next 20 years ...

Was the Suez Crisis the final blow to Britain's self-image ... Can a truly multi-racial society ever be achieved in modern Britain, or does history prevent it? By Diane Abbott.