ABSTRACT
The Prime Minister said that these developments might seriously affect our interests in the Middle East as a whole. Indeed, the importance of the developments in Egypt lay in their potential effect on the other Arab States. Our interests were greater than those of the United States because of our dependence on Middle East oil, and our experience in the area was greater than theirs. We should not therefore allow ourselves to be restricted over much by reluctance to act without full American concurrence and support. We should frame our policy in the light of our interests in the area and get the Americans to support it to the extent we could induce them to do so. . . .
