If You Don't Like Our Peaches, Quit Shaking Our Tree

Tonight's programme shows how the Cold War gave Britain a new role in the alliance, as an essential forward base for American bombers; but how her own freedom of action was limited - a truth brutally exposed by the Suez crisis of 1956. As the British launched their invasion, President Eisenhower rang Prime Minister Eden. 'I can only presume you have gone out of your mind', he said.