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265 ‘Politicians don’t know’: New Statesman, 15 December 1956, quoted in James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, p. 580.
265 ‘The seizure is’: The Times and the Daily Mail, 28 July 1956, quoted in Pearson, Sir Anthony Eden and the Suez Crisis, p. 29.
266 ‘The United States’: Dulles press conference, quoted in ibid., p . 115.
267 ‘I want him murdered’: Quoted in Kyle, Suez, p. 99.
267 ‘Britain and the’: Daily Herald, 28 July 1956; quoted in Parmentier, ‘The British Press in the Suez Crisis’, p. 437, n. 12.
268 ‘I’m finished. I’: Quoted in Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, p. 496.
268 ‘Your return is’: Quoted in Rhodes James, Anthony Eden, pp. 588–9.
268 ‘the same very’: Quoted in ibid., p. 592.
268 ‘For a moment’: Quoted in ibid., p. 594.
268 ‘The doctors have’: Quoted in ibid., p. 597.
270 ‘the Mecca of’: Quoted in Berman, Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya, pp. 372–3.
271 ‘All government, all’: Quoted in Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, p. 564.
272 ‘Are these people’: Quoted in Horne, Macmillan, vol. II: 1957–86, p. 190.
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277 ‘as with so’: Daily Telegraph, 5 April 2011.
282 at schools intended: Indeed, Richard Ingrams, Paul Foot, Willie Rushton and Christopher Booker of Private Eye had all been at Shrewsbury School together.
283 In one sketch: Quoted in Ward, British Culture and the End of Empire, pp. 104–5.
284 ‘if our ancestors’: Quoted in Ferguson, Empire, p. 239.
284 ‘free aspirins and’: Quoted in Ashton and Louis, eds., East of Suez and the Commonwealth, p. xlii.
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