Editing Winston Churchill (section)

===Foreign affairs===
[[File:Photograph of President Truman giving British Prime Minister Winston Churchill a photograph taken at the 1945 Potsdam... - NARA - 199024.jpg|thumb|Churchill with [[Anthony Eden]], [[Dean Acheson]] and [[Harry Truman]], 5 January 1952]]
Churchill feared a [[H-bomb|global conflagration]] and firmly believed the only way to preserve peace and freedom was friendship and co-operation between Britain and America. He made four official transatlantic visits from January 1952 to July 1954.{{sfn|Jenkins|2001|pp=846–848}} He enjoyed a good relationship with Truman, but difficulties arose over the planned [[European Defence Community]] (EDC), by which Truman hoped to reduce America's military presence in West Germany.{{sfn|Jenkins|2001|pp=847, 855}} Churchill wanted US military support of British interests in Egypt and the Middle East, but while Truman expected British military involvement in [[Korean War|Korea]], he viewed any US commitment to the Middle East as maintaining British imperialism.{{sfn|Charmley|1995|p=255}} The Americans recognised the British Empire was in terminal decline and had welcomed the Attlee government's policy of decolonisation. Churchill believed Britain's position as a world power depended on the empire's continued existence.{{Sfn|Brown|1998|pp=339–340}}
[[File:Haile Selassie Churchill.jpg|thumb|Churchill meeting [[Emperor of Ethiopia|Ethiopian Emperor]] [[Haile Selassie]], 22 October 1954, one of the UK's African allies in [[World War II]]]]
Churchill had been obliged to recognise [[Colonel Nasser]]'s revolutionary [[government of Egypt]], which [[Egyptian revolution of 1952|took power in 1952]]. Much to Churchill's dismay, agreement was reached in October 1954 on the phased evacuation of British troops from their [[Suez Canal|Suez]] base. Britain agreed to terminate its rule in [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]] by 1956, though this was in return for Nasser's abandonment of Egyptian claims over the region.{{sfn|Charmley|1995|pp=261, 277, 285}} Elsewhere, the [[Malayan Emergency]], a guerrilla war fought by Communist fighters against Commonwealth forces, had begun in 1948 and continued until 1960. Churchill's government maintained the military response to the crisis and adopted a similar strategy for the [[Mau Mau Uprising]] in [[British Kenya]] (1952–1960).{{Sfn|Mumford|2012|p=49}}

Churchill was uneasy about the election of Eisenhower as Truman's successor. After Stalin died in March 1953, Churchill sought a summit meeting with the Soviets, but Eisenhower refused out of fear the Soviets would use it for propaganda.{{sfn|Gilbert|1988|pp=805–806}}{{sfn|Charmley|1995|pp=263–265}}{{sfn|Blake|Louis|1993|p=405}} By July, Churchill was deeply regretting that the Democrats had not been returned. Churchill believed Eisenhower did not fully comprehend the danger posed by the H-bomb and he greatly distrusted Eisenhower's Secretary of State, [[John Foster Dulles]].{{sfn|Jenkins|2001|pp=848–849}} Churchill hosted Eisenhower at the Three-Powers Bermuda Conference, with French Prime Minister [[Joseph Laniel]], in December;{{sfn|Gilbert|1988|pp=936–937}}{{sfn|Gilbert|1991|pp=920–922}} they met again in June/July 1954 at the White House.{{sfn|Jenkins|2001|pp=880–881}} In the end, the Soviets proposed a [[Geneva Summit (1955)|four-power summit]], but it did not meet until July 1955, three months after Churchill's retirement.{{sfn|Gilbert|1988|pp=1009–1017}}{{sfn|Charmley|1995|pp=289–291}}