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...back in the House of Commons; Sir Samuel Hoare sat with tears trickling down his cheeks; Mr. Eden was made Foreign Secretary; and within a few weeks many a hard-headed London businessman was saying, "Hoare was absolutely right." One of those hard-headed businessmen was Neville Chamberlain, then Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Downing Street. Last week Mr. Chamberlain invited to No. 10 Downing Street the Italian Ambassador, spade-bearded Count Dino Grandi, and in Mr. Eden's presence himself made, as Prime Minister, opening moves for quickly closing the breach between London and Rome opened by Il Duce's conquest of Ethiopia and sending of troops to Spain. Mr. Eden was thus subjected by the head of the House of Chamberlain to acute personal humiliation. Saturday and Sunday, for the first time since the Abdication Crisis there were meetings of the British Cabinet. A patient, drably-dressed crowd almost filled...
Next morning's papers carried the Eden letter of resignation, addressed to "My Dear Prime Minister," giving his reason: "I cannot recommend to Parliament a policy with which I am not in agreement." In a letter to "My Dear Anthony" Chamberlain accepted...
After breakfast Mr. Chamberlain received Count Grandi who left No. 10 grinning. Then the Prime Minister drove to Buckingham Palace and King George kept Mr. Chamberlain for lunch...
...keeper of another man's confidence!" cried ex-Secretary Eden, neatly suggesting that he was above keeping Businessman Chamberlain's squalid conscience. "Agreements that are worthwhile are never made on the basis of threats. . . . The Prime Minister has strong views on foreign policy and I respect him for it. I have strong views, too! Of late the conviction has grown steadily on me that there has been too keen a desire on our part to make terms with others-rather than for others to make terms with us. . . . Propaganda against this country by the Italian Government is rife...