Key Information
Reference code
SUEZ OHP 20
Title
Transcript of interview, 1989-1991, with Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, former Assistant Under Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs
Date(s)
- 1989 - 1991 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
24pp
Scope and content
Transcript of interview with Sir (Charles Arthur) Evelyn Shuckburgh, Assistant Under Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs at the Foreign Office prior to the Suez Crisis of 1956, mainly relating to Shuckburgh's Descent to Suez, diaries 1951-1956 (Weidenfield and Nicolson, London, 1986); the personality of Rt Hon Sir (Robert) Anthony Eden MP as Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister; the Anglo-American initiative, 'Alpha Project', 1954, undertaken by Shuckburgh and Francis Russell, Counsellor at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, to improve Arab-Israeli relations. Two copies, minor variations. 24pp
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Repository
Language of material
Script of material
Existence and location of originals
The original Israeli copy of the Protocol of Sèvres is kept within the Ben-Gurion Archives, Sde Boqer, Israel.