Britain's Retreat from East of Suez : The Choice between Europe and the World? - Saki Dockrill

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Britain's Retreat from East of Suez

The Choice between Europe and the World?

By: Saki Dockrill

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Hardcover | 9 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

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This book is the first detailed account of Britain's East of Suez decision, which was taken by the Harold Wilson Government in 1967-68. Contrary to received opinion, the author argues that the decision was not taken hastily as a result of the November 1967 devaluation. Nor is there any hard evidence to support the notion that there existed a "Pound-Defense" deal with the US. Despite Washington's pressure to maintain Britain's East of Suez role, the decision was taken by the Labor Government on the basis of a long-term effort to re-examine Britain's world role since 1959, and it marked the end of an era for postwar Britain.

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'Dockrill makes use of recently declassified documents in Britain and the United States, as well as interviews, memoirs, and private papers, to provide a more nuanced understanding of the deliberations that resulted in Prime Minister Harold Wilson's decision to withdraw from Britain's major military bases East of Suez in 1967/68. Unlike conventional approaches to this topic, which link the sterling devaluation of November 1967 to the East of Suez decision, Dockrill

argues convincingly that this decision, following several years of protracted Cabinet debates and defense reviews, predated the devaluation by nearly six months.' - James Gump, Department of History, University of San Diego, H-NET BOOK REVIEW

'This ground-breaking monograph will be of immense value to anyone with an interest in the mechanics of decision-making in Whitehall, and should be essential reading for all students of British foreign and defence policy in the twentieth century.' - Keith Hamilton, Senior Editor, Documents on British Policy Overseas

'...an admirable study.' - Keith Robbins, International History Review

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Foreword	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xii
List of Abbreviations	p. xiv
Map	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Power and Influence, 1945-58	p. 8
Re-defining Britain's world role, 1945-51	p. 8
Towards Atlanticism, 1946-49	p. 11
The militarisation of the Cold War, 1949-51	p. 12
Britain's New Look in global policy; from Churchill to Eden, 1951-55	p. 15
The Suez Crisis and Sandys's Defence White Paper, 1956-58	p. 22
Three Roles, 1959-64	p. 27
The making of global policy	p. 27
Nuclear weapons, Anglo-American relations and Europe	p. 29
Britain's global commitments	p. 32
The growing dilemma, 1963-64	p. 36
Labour in Charge: Reassessing Defence Priorities	p. 43
Harold Wilson's aims and objectives	p. 43
The Wilson Government in October 1964	p. 46
Thinking ahead: the Long-Term Study Group	p. 49
The Chequers meeting, 21-22 November 1964	p. 55
Anglo-US relations	p. 64
The Lyndon Johnson Administration looks at Britain	p. 66
The Washington Summit, 7-8 December 1964	p. 71
The aftermath	p. 74
Spreading the Butter Too Thin: Military Capabilities versus Political Commitments	p. 76
Economy in weaponry: some controversial decisions	p. 77
The TSR-2 affair until 1 February 1965	p. 80
The decision to cancel the TSR-2, February-April 1965	p. 86
Irreducible uncertainty: the TSR-2 affair	p. 91
The second Chequers defence debate in June 1965	p. 95
Vietnam, the Pound and Britain's Role East of Suez	p. 105
'Getting worse everywhere': Vietnam and the world	p. 105
The American factor: defence was 'their biggest lever'	p. 114
Britain under American pressure	p. 116
The nature of the defence-pound linkage	p. 119
The Decision to Withdraw from Aden and Singapore: The Defence Review, June-December 1965	p. 122
Cutting commitments	p. 122
The Mediterranean and the Middle East	p. 124
The Far East	p. 127
The 'peculiar difficulty' in Britain's future commitments	p. 131
The Wilson-Johnson meeting in December 1965	p. 134
The Completion of the Defence Review, January-February 1966	p. 138
Depleting 'East of Suez' weapons systems: aircraft carriers	p. 138
Depleting 'East of Suez' weapons systems: the F111	p. 144
The shift in Britain's Singapore strategy	p. 148
Reading between the lines of the Defence White Paper in February 1966	p. 151
The Choice between Europe and 'East of Suez', March-December 1966	p. 157
The slippery path: spring-summer 1966	p. 157
Axing the government's overseas expenditure	p. 162
American psychology	p. 166
The BAOR affair	p. 168
The Chequers debates on the new defence ceiling	p. 172
The Final Verdict: January 1967-January 1968	p. 178
The Defence Expenditure Studies, January-March 1967	p. 178
'Taking a leap': Healey's peripheral strategy, March 1967	p. 183
The Alliance Factor, March-May 1967	p. 185
A very diplomatic offer: 'We would maintain "a continuing capability for use in the Far East"' (May-June 1967)	p. 190
The verdict in July 1967	p. 193
Devaluation in November 1967	p. 199
Acceleration of the July decisions on 15 January 1968	p. 202
Conclusion	p. 209
Notes and References	p. 227
Select Bibliography	p. 272
Index	p. 283
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