Abstract
The full effect of Britain’s departure from Palestine in 1948 on her whole position in the Middle East was not immediately obvious. In March 1951 Herbert Morrison, who was briefly Foreign Secretary, felt entitled to assure his Cabinet colleagues that ‘the United Kingdom still commands on the whole more influence and goodwill in the Middle East than any other Foreign Power’.1 Long before the year was out, that sanguine picture had begun to change dramatically. Within six years, British influence in the Middle East was to be damaged irretrievably.
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