The number could be cut down if existing groupings could be widened for instance if Malaya could federate with Sarawak and Borneo, BritishGuiana with the West Indies.
Looking at now-released cabinet records concerning the invasion of Suez (1956), the US and British-supported overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq (1953) and the overthrow of the elected government of BritishGuiana (1953), Mr Curtis finds talk in private only of oil and other strategic interests.