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

election the
British press held the view that Labour ‘achieved an
equilibrium in southern Asia, while failed in the Middle East.’
58 This was how the Newsaw it, a Labour supporter,
which became an unrelenting critic of Labour’s Middle East policy.

There is a gap between ideas
and political practice. The Anglo-Iranian Oil
Company’s crisis confronted the Labour Party with all kinds of economic
problems which required its special attention. The crisis was one that would
temporarily affect the internal economic position of the United Kingdom, and
therefore it was not a case of advocating imperialism, and imperial flag
waving, but one of domestic national interest.

58 . The New Statesman, in W.
R. LOUIS, op. cit. p. 738.

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