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- - - - Nassar announced nationalisation of Suez Canal in response (to finance construction)
  - - - excuse for intervention would be to enforce peace in Israel and egypt, real motivation to seize control of Suez canal
      - real motivations kept secret from parliament
- - - - made Britain 3rd country in the world to test nuclear weapons, after US and USSR
- - - - few British politicians or journalists in favour of Britain taken European leadership role on offer
      - left suspicious of free market principle; Labour political Herbert Morrision 'the Durham miners won't wear it, I'm afraid'
      - Right preferred traditional trade links with Commonwealth (Australia, New Zealand, etc)
      - belief that Britain was above continental Europe; EEC was losers club as Britain had 'won the war'
      - assumption that Britain was still a world power
      - Britain wanted to balance involvement in Europe, and maintain 'special relationship' with US
    - - hoped that EEC would boost industrial production for a large scale export market
      - increase industrial efficiency with greater competition
      - stimulate economic growth with the rapid economic expansion already seen in the EEC
      - US keen for Britain to join EEC for strategic reasons (tensions rising in the Cold War)
      - Belief in Britain as an imperial power had been shaken by Suez and rapid decolonisation
    - - Britain wanted to maintain position with the Commonwealth and the US; made negotiations complex
      - Britain found it difficult to conform to EEC's detailed economic structures, esp agricultural policy
        
        special exemptions for Britain's Commonwealth trade partners, such as lamb exports from New Zealand, had to be sought
      - last minute veto by French President Charles De Gaulle
        
        suspicious of 'les anglo saxons'
- - - - involved in plans for Summit conference with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1960
      - established good relationship with President Kennedy
        
        kept informed in events of Cuban Missile Crisis
        
        Britiah Chancellor Peter Thorneycroft describes Britain was 'bystanders' during the crisis
    - - strained over rejected EEC application and Suez
      - Burgess and Maclean Affair; Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean were highly placed officers in the British intelligence, defecting to the Soivet Union in 1951 as they were caught as spies. Concerns about finding the 'third man' that tipped them off; America concerned about the revelation that British spies had being leaking information to Moscow and became less likely to share secrets
      - Britian militarily overstretched, and dependent on American power.