War and peace
War and Peace
1)
a) Couve de Murville's prediction was very correct. When the Americans withdrawed all of their
offers to help Nasser nationalised the Suez canal so that he could use the it's revenues to finance the
Aswan High Dam.
b) When Nasser nationalised the canal the Brits and the French were outraged because they were
the main financiers and shareholders of the Suez Canal. They wanted Nasser destroyed and
removed.By August 1956 the British and the French were holding meetings to discuss a possible