Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2014
This is the text of the 1991 Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture delivered at the London School of Economics on 21 November 1991.
1 [US National Archives, Washington, DC] State Department Records, Record Group 59, Box 4038, 780.022/10–652, Dhahran telegram 91 to State Dept., 6 Oct. 1952. President Truman's letter was dated 31 Oct. 1950.
2 ibid.
3 State Dept. Records, R.G. 59, Box 4038, 780.022/10–852, Dhahran tel. 95 to State Dept., 8 Oct. 1952.
4 [Public Record Office, Kew] Foreign Office Records, F.O. 371 (General Correspondence, Political), Vol. 98376, EA 1084/234, Riches no. 117 to F.O., 11 Oct. 1952.
5 State Dept. Records, R.G. 59, Box 4038, 780.022/9–2852, Jedda tel. 179 to State Dept., 28 Sept. 1952.
6 F.O. 371/104295, EA 10811569, Minute by J. R. Colville (private secretary), 22 May 1953; and F.O. 371/104293, EA 1081/513 B, Minute by P. M., 1 May 1953.
7 F.O. 371/104296, EA 1081/588, Minute no. 169 from Min. orstate to P. M., 22 May 1953.
8 ibid., Minute no. M 161/63 by P. M., 24 May 1953.
9 F.O. 371/104299, EA 1081/679, F.O. tel. 2794 to Washington, 13 July 1953.
10 Kelly, J. B., Eastern Arabian Frontiers, London, 1964, p. 202.Google Scholar
11 F.O. 371/114626. EA 1081/433, F.O. tel. 5204 to Washington, 7 Nov. 1955.
12 F.O. 371/114633, EA 1081/593, Parkes no. 10310/26/55 to E. Shuckburgh (F.O.), 15 Dec. 1955.
13 F.O. 371/120578, EA 1081/16, Minute by D. M. H. Riches, 2 Jan. 1956.
14 F.O. 371/114583, E 1015/158 G, Minute by Eden, 1 Dec. 1955.
15 F.O. 371/114559, EA 102114, F.O. tel. 6000 to Washington, 15 Dec. 1955, transmitting text or US note dated 14 Dec.
16 F.O. 371/114539, EA 1021/6, F.O. tel. 5350 saving to Washington, 16 Dec. 1955, reporting conversation.
17 ibid.
18 ibid.
19 F.O. 371/120578, EA 1081/26, F.O., tel. 255 to Washington, 17 Jan. 1956.
20 F.O. 371/120579, EA 1081/40, Washington tel. 138 to F.O., 19 Jan. 1956. According to the British embassy, the State Department showed ‘an elaborate lack of interest’ in the captured documents (F.O. 371./120577, EA 1081/12, Minute by Riches, 12 Jan. 1956).
21 F.O. 371/120575, E 1072/16, Memo on British and American Policies in the Arabian Peninsula, 2 Jan. 1956.
22 F.O. 371/120582, EA 1081/146, Memo on Conditions inside Saudi Arabia, 2 Jan. 1956.
23 ibid.; Memo, on American Views on Buraimi and Oman, 2 Jan, 1956. All three memos, were drafted by Ian Samuel of Eastern Dept.
24 [Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas] Eisenhower Presidential Papers, 1953–61, Ann Whitman File: International, Box 20, File 4, Eden talks, 30 Jan.‐1 Feb. 1956, Memo. (7 Feb. 1956) of Conversation of 30 Jan.
25 See CAB 128/30, CM (56) 17, 28 Feb. 1956, and Cabinet Conclusions, same date.