British Diplomatic Oil Crisis: Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Geopolitical Rivalries in the Persian Gulf: Drawing a Lesson? Or Sir Anthony Eden‘s Delusion of Grandeur.

British Diplomatic Oil Crisis: Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Geopolitical Rivalries in the Persian Gulf: Drawing a Lesson? Or Sir Anthony Eden‘s Delusion of Grandeur.

Table of Contents

Page Dedication
I

Summary II

Introduction 1

CHAPTER ONE:
Immediate Background to the Crisis: Britain and Iran 7

The theory of state expansionism 7

Britain and Iran 9

CHAPTER TWO: 1948:
Labour and the Coming of the Crisis 18

Oil and British Government
Involvement, 1914-1948 18

Iran and the Oil Question,
1945-1951 24

The Involvement of the Labour
Government, 1948-1951 31

CHAPTER Three: The
Fall of the Labour Government in 1951 43

CHAPTER Four: The
Coming of the Conservative Party to Office in 1951 66

CHAPTER
Five: 1954: The Conservative Government and the Ending of the Crisis
97

The Handling of the Crisis 97

The Aftermath of the Crisis 116

CHAPTER
Six: Britain and the Aftermath of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s Crisis
126

The American Perspective 127

Safeguarding British Interests 131

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