The IMF's lending to the four countries directly involved in the 1956 Suez crisis, and particularly to the United Kingdom, raised the institution's profile and established its role in helping member ...

In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France into direct conflict with President ...

Lester B. Pearson was the Canadian Minister of External Affairs when he won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in resolving the Suez Canal Crisis. Pictured here, Pearson displaying the Nobel ...

Did the turmoil in the debt market force Mr. Trump’s hand on tariffs? If so, that, too, is, in a sense, an echo of the Suez crisis, when Britain was forced to abruptly terminate its campaign to ...

The history of the Suez crisis will be familiar to many readers but is worth briefly retelling. In 1956, General Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt announced the nationalisation of the British-controlled ...