This is a photograph of President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressing the nation on the Suez crisis in the Middle East.
At 7 p.m. on October 31, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the nation on international affairs. After discussing Soviet intervention in Hungary, he turned to the Suez Crisis. He criticized the British/French/Israeli decision to wrest control of the Sinai Peninsula and Suez Canal from Egypt. President Gamal Abdel Nasser had nationalized the British and French-owned Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez (the Suez Canal Company) on July 26, 1956.
