Anthony Eden | Autograph letter signed, to Lord Beaverbrook, on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Sir Anthony Eden, 1st Earl Of Avon

Autograph letter signed, to Lord Beaverbrook

expressing grave concern about the Cuban missile crisis, predicting that it will develop "disastrously", commenting on the political situation in France, 1 page, 4to, Fyfield Manor, Pewsey, 26 September 1962

"...The United States has been the prisoner of its own past. If it had given us firm support in the first weeks after Nasser seized the Suez canal, he could have been called to order and international authority restored over the Canal. However, the United States would not help and Nasser was allowed to get away with it. This encouraged the other petty dictators-first Soekarno, then Castro. Now the United States has a life-time decision on its hands..."

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby's, London, 23 July 1979, lot 120