In 1956, a brilliant diplomat named Lester B. Pearson led Canada into middle power respectability when he pulled the world back from the brink of war in the Middle East. In 1956, the first large ...

Abstract: Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 and the failed attempt by France, Israel, and the United Kingdom to retake it by force constituted a serious political crisis with ...

French, and Israeli troops. The humiliating collapse of the invasion that followed greatly accelerated Britain’s decline as a global power. If the Suez Crisis had never occurred, Britain may ...