Item SUEZ OHP 6 - Transcript of interview with Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 1989-1991, former Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs

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SUEZ OHP 6

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Transcript of interview with Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 1989-1991, former Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs

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  • 1989 - 1991 (Creation)

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2 copies, 13pp

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Transcript of interview with Sir (Arthur) Douglas Dodds-Parker, Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during the Suez Crisis of 1956, including Dodds-Parker's early career in the Sudan Political Service; the 'Dodds-Parker Committee', established in 1956 to initiate clandestine activities against the Egyptian Government; his reaction to being told on 31 Oct 1956 by Rt Hon (Harold) Anthony Nutting MP, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, of the prior discussions between Great Britain, France and Israel to attack Egypt, and of Nutting's intention to resign; the disapperance of sensitive official papers from the Foreign Office relating to the Suez Crisis. Two copies. 13pp

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The original Israeli copy of the Protocol of Sèvres is kept within the Ben-Gurion Archives, Sde Boqer, Israel.

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