Suez Crisis in the Crown #thecrown #suezcanal

Suez Canal was the property of the Egyptian government, but European shareholders, mostly British and French, owned the concessionary company which operated it until July 1956, when President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised it—an event which led to the Suez Crisis of October–November 1956.
The United Kingdom and France joined the Israelis on 5 November, sought to regain control of the Suez Canal. Shortly after the invasion began, the three countries came under heavy political pressure from both the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as from the United Nations, eventually prompting their withdrawal from Egypt.

[UnicornPizza]

The actor portraying Nasser doesn’t get enough credit - he’s fantastic and very charismatic !

[Goldstone]

The guy playing Eden does a great job of playing a proud but insecure and ultimately inadequate man.

[Brinkly]

Militarily, this was a text book operation. It showed in a post-war world we still had it. But politically we didn’t. This really was the final nail in the coffin for the British Empire. Eden did a huge amount of damage with Suez.

[NixonRules]

Before this I had always viewed Eden as kind of a political moron, someone who didn't realize the age he lived in and the new political realities. But this show really made me sympathize with him. He lives in the shadow of Churchill and, with his mind and judgement clouded by drugs, sees Nasser as a Middle Eastern Hitler, another fascist who must be faced down by the British Empire. His decision to seize the Suez Canal doesn't appear stupid but rather tragic. Eden's final lines with the Queen are similarly tragic.

Queen: Very few people get a chance to go down in history.
Eden: Or make history by going down.

[mongtkb]

this incident was the final nail on the coffin of the British Empire and the rise of the American Empire

[fatty]

I didn't think I'd enjoy this series ..but you know what it was absolutely fantastic especially the historical side.

[soyuz]

Legally the Suez canal always belonged to Egypt. The Anglo-French company operated the canal and absorbed the profits from toll. Egypt just nationalized the canal company around 1950s. However to average public (from both sides), it sounded that France/Britain owned the Suez canal like its own territory.

[РодионФилиппов-ьь]

It was a struggle of the old colonial world (France and Britain) against the new free world (USA and USSR). The free world has won. The Soviet Union also supported the communist revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa in order to destroy the colonial empires from within.

[MissKorea-oyip]

I don't get why they didn't portray Nasser with a little more swagger and charisma. It would've drove home the point that Eden was in over his head and had no grasp of how to handle the crisis.

[TheStewieOne]

I wouldn't say that this is the beginning of the end of the British Empire. This event was the end of two thing: The End of the British Empire and the end of Britain being a major player in the world and United States of America becoming the dominate world power.

[Revan]

Eden bungled everything, he ruined himself with the Suez Crisis.

[noobster]

Nuremberg principle:

Principle VI
The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under international law:

(a) Crimes against peace:
(i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
(ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).

It took the british and french barely a decade to commit the same crimes they hanged the nazis for at Nuremberg. The treaty of Sevres was just another version of the Molotov Ribbentrop pact, replacing Germany with Israel and the Soviets with the british/french empires. And of course egypt got the role of Poland in that one.

[BatmanHQYT]

Wow, Greg Wise as Mountbatten sounds a lot like Charles Dance.

[mr.tobacco]

Anglo-French: We are still Empires and we will put a stop to this!

U.S and Soviets: No, no, no, no way. We don't think so old guys! That's not how it works!

[mattwho]

The British Empire was long gone, but Suez was the final nail in the coffin. It was the last time Britain could pretend it could operate on the world stage without America’s tacit approval.

[NewphoneAlkhyat-xqpr]

Rip Jamel abdualnaser. I just read a bbc article talking about UK and France intention not to give it to the eygyption even after the end of the agreement.

[Sl-re]

“Our reputation for decency and integrity for foreign policy” did he really believed that?

[carrickrichards]

The Americans were aware about Suez in advance and kept quiet until shooting had started. They were certainly keen to reduce European influence in the Middle East, that having been their policy elsewhere also, most flagrantly in 1945 in South East Asia. Turned out hoping to replace this influence was rather counter productive.

[tomace]

The Beginning of the End of the British Empire.

[centurionzen]

I refuse to believe the crusader tank was still in british service at the time. I hope it was just used as a stock prop because it wasn't very good when it was released in early WW2 & they had much better tanks after the war - the centurion, especially.