BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY,

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1 BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY,

2 Also by Michael Dockrill THE COLD WAR Also by John W. Young BRITAIN. FRANCE AND THE UNITY OF EUROPE, THE FOREIGN POLICY OF CHURCHILL'S PEACETIME ADMINISTRATION

3 British Foreign Policy, Edited by MICHAEL DOCKRILL Senior Lecturer in War Studies King's College, London and JOHN W. YOUNG Lecturer in International History London School of Economics Palgrave Macmillan

4 ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / Michael Dockrill and John W. Young 1989 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY First published in the United States of America in 1989 ISBN Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data British foreign policy, / edited by Michael Dockrill and John W. Young. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN Great Britain-Foreign relations I. Dockrill, Michael L. II. Young, John W.,1957- DA588.B dcI CIP

5 Contents Preface vii Notes on the Contributors viii List of Abbreviations IX Introduction Lawrence Freedman 1 1 The Projection of Britain Abroad Philip M. Taylor 9 2 Britain, America and the Bomb Margaret Gowing 31 3 Bevin's Imperialism and the Idea of Euro-Africa, John Kent 47 4 Britain and the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 Avi Shlaim 77 5 Britain, South Africa and African Defence, Geoffrey Berridge The Significance of the Korean War in Anglo-American Relations, 195(}--53 Peter Lowe Britain and the Settlement of the West German Rearmament Question in 1954 Saki Dockrill Britain and the First Chinese Offshore Islands Crisis, Michael Dockrill 'The Parting of the Ways'? Britain, the Messina Conference and the Spaak Committee, June-December 1955 John W. Young 197 v

6 VI Contents 10 Suez Revisited Anthony Adamthwaite 225 Select Bibliography 246 Index 250

7 Preface This collection of essays is largely based upon papers given to the Conference on 'British Security Policy ', held at King's College, London, on 25 and 26 March The conference, which was financed with the help of the Economic and Social Research Council, was attended by almost one hundred scholars from Britain and abroad, and highlighted the growing interest in postwar international history. The editors of the current volume would like to thank the Economics and Research Council for its assistance in financing the King's College conference. On behalf of the authors of the essays published here we would also like to thank the staff of the various archives which have been consulted. Copyright material from the Public Record Office, Kew, appears by permission of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Michael Dockrill John W. Young VII

8 Notes on the Contributors Dr Anthony Adamthwaite lectures in History at the University of Salford. Dr Geoffrey Berridge is Lecturer in History at the University of Leicester. Dr Michael Dockrill is Senior Lecturer in War Studies at King's College, London. Dr Saki Dockrill is a John M. Olin Fellow in History at the University of Yale. Professor Margaret Gowing is Emeritus Professor of History of the University of Oxford. Professor Lawrence Freedman is Professor of War Studies at King's College, London. Dr John Kent is Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. Dr Peter Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester. Dr A vi Shlaim is Alistair Buchan Reader in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Dr Philip M. Taylor is Lecturer in International History at the University of Leeds. Dr John W. Young is Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. V111

9 List of Abbreviations (In text) ADO ANZUS BBC BIS BTO CEEC CIA COl ECSC EDC EEC GATT IDF IRD MAC MEDO MOD MOl NATO OEEC POW PWE RAF SACEUR UN UNC WEU African Defence Organisation Australia-New Zealand-United States Alliance British Broadcasting Corporation British Information Services Brussels Treaty Organisation Committee for European Economic Co-operation Central Intelligence Agency Central Office of Information European Coal-Steel Community European Defence Community European Economic Community General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Israeli Defence Forces Information Research Department, Foreign Office Mutual Aid Committee, Whitehall Middle East Defence Organisation Ministry of Defence Ministry of Information North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Organisation of European Economic Co-operation. Prisoner of War Political Warfare Executive Royal Air Force Supreme Allied Commander, Europe United Nations United Nations Command (Korea) West European Union ix

10 List of Abbreviations (In Notes) (1) BT CAB CM cos CP CRO DEFE DO INF. FO PREM. (2) Cmd. DBPO EUI FRUS H.C. Deb. 5 S. ISA PRO- Public Record Office references Board of Trade Cabinet Cabinet minutes Chiefs of Staff Cabinet Memoranda Commonwealth Relations Office Defence Dominions Office Ministry of Information Foreign Office Prime Minister's Office Other references Command Papers Documents on British Policy Overseas European University Institute, Florence Foreign Relations of the United States House of Commons, Debates Israeli State Archives X