Titlebook: Intervention at Abadan; Plan Buccaneer James Cable Book 1991 James Cable 1991 Britain.control.Great Britain.intervention

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Oil,nted in 1901 to William Knox d’Arcy, an Englishman who had made a fortune in Australia. In 1905, when the drillers he sent to Persia had spent much of his money and found little oil, he joined forces with a British concern, the Burmah Oil Company. They were already supplying some oil to the British

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Buccaneer is Conceived, middle page of . — in those decorous days the front page was reserved for classified advertisements and the agony column hallowed by Sherlock Holmes — every weekday of the month. Nor was this for want of other news. The sensation caused by the announcement on 7 June that the traitors Burgess and Ma

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Decisions, Decisions,was set out in an explanatory memorandum (CP(51) 172) considered by the Cabinet on 2 July 1951, but closed to historians until the year 2002. So are the two PREM files containing Attlee’s papers about the Persian oil crisis. The minutes of the Defence Committee for 1951 have been diligently weeded a

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Second Thoughts,sive turning point.. No doubt this was what Attlee intended, but the course of military movements and the evolution of military planning during the rest of July reflected little perception of any fundamental change in British policy. On the contrary it was then that Buccaneer almost came to the boil

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Holidays For Some, Foreign currency for holidays abroad was a rationed luxury in 1951, each adult being allowed to spend in a year only £100 of his own money, with £70 for each child. That was more than in 1950, but the ration would be halved in November 1951 as Britain’s balance of payments crumbled beneath the burd

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Aftermath in Retrospect,36, the agreement providing a legal basis for the British military presence in Egypt. The correspondent in Cairo of . reported:. The Egyptian Government proclaimed 15 October as Abrogation Day and on the 16th anti-British rioting began in Ismailia, Port Said and Suez. All leave for British troops in

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