Book Chapter

PART I. HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM: CHAPTER III. MIDSUMMER TO MICHAELMAS—THE SUEZ CRISIS

1956

Overview

The B.M.C. strike (pg. 32-33). parliamentary debates: prostitution (pg. 33). death penalty (pg. 33). V.C.s' income tax (pg. 33-34). M.P.s' salaries (pg. 34). Ceylon bases (pg. 34). Cyprus: Lord Radcliffe's appointment (pg. 34). foreign affairs (pg. 34-35). the Suez crisis (pg. 35-40). Cyprus: the abortive truce offer (pg. 40-41). the ‘Nina’ affair (pg. 41-42). Gold Coast independence (pg. 42). the Duke of Edinburgh's Oxford conference (pg. 42-43). miscellaneous: the Battersea tower and the New Barbican plan (pg. 43). the Oxford road decision (pg. 43). magistrates and motoring offences (pg. 43-44). Sunday schools (pg. 44). public libraries and television (pg. 44-45). traction engines (pg. 45). the wet summer: cricket (pg. 45-46). south coast holiday economics (pg. 46).

• Subject: Amalgamated Engineering Union / Bandaranaike, Mr. (Ceylon) / Bevan, Rt Hon. Aneurin, M.P. (U.K.) / Bolshoi Ballet / Brown, Mr. George, M.P / Ceylon / Commons, House of / Cyprus / Dulles, Mr. John Foster (U.S.A.) / Eden, Rt. Hon. SIR Anthony, M.P / Edinburgh, H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of / Fisher, Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey, Archbishop of Canterbury / Gaitskell, Rt. Hon. Hugh, M.P / Grivas, Colonel George (Cyprus) / Harding, Field-Marshal Sir John / Kilmuir, Viscount, Lord Chancellor / KING-HALL, Sir Stephen / Laker, Jim / LLOYD-GEORGE, Major Rt Hon. Gwilym, M.P / Makarios, Archbishop, President of Cyprus / MAY, P. H. B / Menon, Mr. V. Krishna (India) / Menzies, Mr. R. G. (Australia) / Modes, C. and A / Nasser, Colonel, President of Egypt / Silverman, Mr. Sidney, M.P / Times, The / Transport and General Workers' Union / Weather / Zellerbach, Mr. James D. (U.S.A.)