بریتانیا دیگر یک قدرت جهانی قادر به اقدام مستقل نیست: بحران ملی شدن نفت انگلیس- ایران (Anglo – Iranian) به عنوان نمونه‌ای که بریتانیا می‌بایست از آن در بحران کانال سوئز 1956 درس می‌گرفت

پاورقی

1. Department of State: Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, (Washington DC Annual), 1952-54, Vol. IX, p. 762, the Near and Middle East, Agreed Minutes of the Fourth Session of the United States-French talks on Middle East oil, Secret,December 21 1953.

2. A.P. DOBSON, The Politics of the Anglo-America Economic Special Relationship 1940-1987, (Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books, 1988), p. 143.

3. L.P. ELWELL-SUTTON, Persian Oil: A Study in Power Politics, (London: Lawrence and Wishart Ltd., 1955), p. 295.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid

6. Just before the UK was considering taking military action, which was discussed in Chapter Three.

7.PRO, London, T236/3664, Treasury Records, Cabinet Persia (Official) Committee, Exports to Persia, Note by the Board of Trade, Secret, 21st, July 1952, p. 1.

8. L. P. ELWELL-SUTTON, op. cit., p. 302.

9. Ibid.

10. S.STRANGE, Sterling and British Policy, (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 107.

11. PRO, London, FO 371/91472, The General Political Correspondence of the Foreign Office, report from the British Embassy, Teheran to the Foreign Office, to the Foreign Office on Musaddiq, Confidential, 15th November 1951.

12. PRO, London, FO 371/91463, The General Political Correspondence of the Foreign Office, by Sir William Strang, Permanent under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on Musaddiq’s position, 8th September 1951.

13. L. P. ELWELL-SUTTON, op. cit., p. 311

14. Ibid.

15.Ibid, p. 313.

16. R. RHODES-JAMES, Anthony Eden, (London: Macmillan, 1986), p. 360.

17. P. B. LAPPING, End of Empire, (London: Paladin Grafton Books, 1989), pp. 217-272.

18. S. STRANGE, op. cit., p. 275.

19. J. W. YOUNG (Ed.), The Foreign Policy of Churchill’s Peacetime Administration 1951-1955, (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1988), p. 165.

20. PRO, London, FO 371/911462, The General Correspondence of the Foreign Office, by Sir William Strang, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on Persian political situation, 21st August 1951.

21. PRO, London, FO 371/911462, The General Correspondence of the Foreign Office, by E.A. Berthoud, Assistant Under-Secretary at the British Embassy in Teheran, Persia, Secret, 19th June 1951.

22. PRO, London, T 236/3663, Treasury records, Cabinet Persia (Official) Committee, Foreign Office, Secret, 9th April 1952, p. 1.

23. B. LAPPING, op. cit., p. 272.

24. L. A. MONK, Britain 1945-1970, (London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1976), p. 100.

25. PRO, London, FO 371/91548/ EP 1531/674, The General Political Correspondence of the Foreign Office, Minute by Berthoud, 15th June 1951 in W. R. LOUIS, The British Empire in the Middle East: 1945-51, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 659-660.

26. PRO, London, FO 371/98701, The General Political Correspondence of the Foreign Office, Minute by Berthoud, 13th October 1952 in J. A. BILL and W.R. LOUIS, Musaddiq, Iranian Nationalism and Oil, (London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. Publishers, 1988), p. 233.

27. FO 371/91548/EP 1531/674 in W. R. LOUIS, op. cit., p. 660.

28. Ibid.

29. C. ANDREW, The Making of the British Intelligence Community, (London: Sceptre books, 1986).

30. J. A. BILL and W. R. LOUIS, op. cit., p. 250.

31. Ibid, p. 251.

32. B. LAPPING, op. cit., p. 270.

33. Ibid, p. 271.

34. J. A. BILL and W. R. LOUIS, op. cit., p. 283.

35. Ibid, p. 251.

36. W. S. CHURCHILL, The World Crisis, Vol. 1, in ibid, p. 253.

37. Ibid.

38. B. LAPPING, Op. cit., p. 269

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