France and the Suez Crisis

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Maurice Vaisse

Yayın yılı:

1991

Yayıncı:

Oxford University Press

This chapter establishes the central part played by Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, the Minister of Defence, in military assistance to Israel. It was Bourges-Maunoury who pressed for an accord first with Israel and then with Britain. The motive was to quell the Algerian revolution. French leaders, like the British, erroneously saw Nasser as the cause of their troubles in northern Africa and the Middle East, and, equally erroneously, applied the ‘historical lesson’ of the 1930s. Nasser appeared to be a dictator comparable to Mussolini or even Hitler, towards whom a policy of appeasement would lead to disaster. The chapter refers to this as ‘Munich syndrome’.

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