ABSTRACT
I suppose the first meeting of significance of the Suez Group was a chance encounter between Captain Charles Waterhouse and myself in Cape Town in January of 1953. Captain Waterhouse was a senior member of the Conservative Party, a former Minister and a Privy Councillor. I was a backbencher with only three years’ service in the House. Waterhouse had just been on a visit to the Sudan, Uganda and Kenya and was very disturbed by reports that the British Foreign Office was working towards an agreement with Egypt which might lead to an Egyptian takeover of the Sudan.
