Lester B. Pearson's Role In Resolving The Suez Crisis

When it comes to the Suez Crisis and Canada, Lester B. Pearson played a key role in resolving the crisis through his efforts to control the situation without upsetting anyone, which eventually led to the creation of the United Nations Emergency Force. This event marked a turning point in the Canadian foreign policy and Pearson later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his involvement. It’s fascinating how individuals can make such a big impact on the world stage, isn’t it? Although Egypt Nationalized the Suez Canal that has previously been under control of the British and French, it paved the way to test Britain’s abilities of whether or not they have what it takes to control of the Suez Canal. This is proven through politics, economics, and relations.
Troops were withdrawn and replaced by the UN. Causing Britain to be under pressure “Britain's declining status was highlighted and its Prime Minister - Anthony Eden - resigned”. Because of this resignment, Egypt had the authority to regain their Canal. Proceeding with the Suez was popular to British in the public “the humiliation caused by the conflict, the government rapidly lost the support of the country.” This resulted in British loss in efforts to achieve their proceeding goals towards the Suez Crisis.

Britain is targeted out for their relations with Civilians “On November 4th the United Nations threatened Britain with sanctions if there were any civilian casualties from British aerial bombing of targets in Egypt.” This caused an economic panic due to tens of millions of pounds being lost from Egypt’s reserves. Britain is now seen as economically