285. Suez Crisis: The Secret Meeting Between Israel, Britain & France (Part 2)

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnhem. And me, William Thur. And once again we are joined by the fabulous Alex Fontinsorwin. Alex, absolute superstar, author of Blood and Sand, Sewers, Hungary and the Crisis that Shook the World. And you left us on just the most delicious cliffhanger.

It was a psychodrama of Shakespearean proportions between, in the red corner, Anthony Eden, fading hottie, and Prime Minister. Grey moustache. Prime Minister of Great Britain with a much younger wife, Clarissa. And in the blue corner, you've got Nasser of Egypt, who is the young Hottie, who is much closer in age to Clarissa. And the whole kind of sort of clash of these two men, one of whom insists at this dinner, this horrible dinner, of talking down to Nasser and explaining to him what it is to be Arab, you can just imagine the sort of butt-clenching moment that would have been.

And the two of them have precisely zero chemistry, unless the chemistry is explosive. So from that point, I think what we should do is look ahead to July the twenty sixth, nineteen fifty six, which is not long after this dinner, is it, Alex? It's a year and a bit. The dinner was February nineteen fifty five, so it's taken a while for

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