Letter from Jessie Kenney to Prime Minister Anthony Eden and Thank You card, 1957
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Title
Letter from Jessie Kenney to Prime Minister Anthony Eden and Thank You card, 1957
Subject
War
Description
Jessie Kenney wrote to Sir Anthony Eden, UK Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957, to express her support of his methods for dealing with the Suez Crisis. The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab-Israeli War, was an invasion of Egypt in 1956 followed by the UK and France, aiming to regain control of the Suez Canal. Political pressure from the other global powers, including the United Nations and the Soviet Union, forced them to withdraw. The episode is regarded as a failure of British foreign policy and put an end to Eden’s political career. Jessie’s view was that the British invasion was justified and she commended Eden on his show of courage and strength. “We [the British] have been taking it ‘on the chin’,” she writes, “ever since we won the war of 1939, and the more we have worked for peace, the more we have subscribed to it, when we could ill afford it, and to the backward nations to help them get independence.”
Also included is a Thank You card sent from PM Eden's Office.
Also included is a Thank You card sent from PM Eden's Office.
Creator
Kenney, Jessie, and Eden, Anthony
Source
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Publisher
Unknown
Date
3 November 1957
Rights
Copyright: Estate of Jessie Kenney. All rights reserved. Included here by kind permission of Warwick Kenney-Taylor (son of Annie Kenney) and later generations of the Kenney and Taylor families.
Format
jpeg image file
Language
English (United Kingdom)
Type
Identifier
KP/JK/3
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Letter
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Citation
Kenney, Jessie, and Eden, Anthony, “Letter from Jessie Kenney to Prime Minister Anthony Eden and Thank You card, 1957,” Suffragette Stories, accessed April 26, 2024, https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/112.