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Suez Crisis

Great Britain · Warfare / Suez War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1956Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1956

Aneurin BevanOctober 1956

London · Warfare / Suez War

Opposes the British and French intervention in Egypt.

Edward Heath4 November 1956

London · Warfare / Suez War

Acts as Government Chief Whip during the parliamentary crisis caused by the Suez intervention

Hugh Gaitskell5 November 1956

London · Warfare / Suez War

Goes on television and denounces Eden's conduct of the Suez crisis, calling for his resignation

Names involved

Aneurin BevanEdward HeathHugh Gaitskell

Provenance

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