Suez Crisis to prefer to use the sea route through the Suez Canal. As it was, the rise of super-tankers for shipping Middle East oil to Europe, which were too big to use the Suez Canal meant that British policy-makers greatly overestimated the importance of the canal. By 2000, only 8 percent of the imported oil in Britain arrived via the Suez canal with the rest coming via the Cape route. In August 1956 the Royal Institute of International Affairs published a report titled "Britain and the Suez Canal" revealing government perception of the Suez area. It reiterates several times the strategic
Crisis? What Crisis? up with the name "Crisis? What Crisis?" and one day, when we were sitting around Scorpio Studio, he came in with this sketch of a guy in a deck chair under an umbrella with all this chaos going on around him." "Crisis? What Crisis?" is a line in the film "The Day of the Jackal" (1973). The phrase was used as a headline in The Sun newspaper in 1979 to convey a popular impression of the UK government at the time. Artist Paul Wakefield returned after his work in "Crime of the Century", photographing the backgrounds at the Welsh mining