3 Denzil Batchelor, The Picture Post Book of the Tests (London, Hulton Press, 1956).
4.
4 Richie Benaud, Anything but an Autobiography (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1998).
5.
5 Quoted in W. Scott Lucas, Divided We Stand: Britain, the US and the Suez crisis (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1991).
6.
6 Ibid. I am in debt to the author for this and following quotations.
7.
7 Ibid.
8.
8 ‘In 1956, if somebody coloured walked down Market Place in Sydney’, revealed eximmigration minister Arthur Calwell to Australian journalist John Pilger, ‘he would be at the centre of all attention. So I rejected him for two reasons... one for Australia’s sake and the other for himself, so he wouldn’t be embarrassed and treated badly.’ John Pilger, A Secret Country (London, Jonathan Cape, 1989).
9.
9 Punch (1 August 1956).
10.
10 Punch (15 August 1956).
11.
11 Scott Lucas, op. cit.
12.
12 Ibid.
13.
13 Ibid.
14.
14 Observer (4 November 1956).
15.
15 Ibid.
16.
16 Roy Fullick and Geoffrey Powell, Suez: the double war (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1979).
17.
17 Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (London, Faber & Faber, 1991).
18.
18 David Sheppard, Parson’s Pitch (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1964).
19.
19 Trevor Huddleston, Naught for Your Comfort (London, Collins, 1956).
