Word: eden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthropologists no longer look for a definite single place where the human race first appeared on earth. They know that man's ancestors were numerous, varied and widely distributed before they were fully human. But they still seek the "cultural Garden of Eden": the region where man first discovered agriculture...
...Prime Minister's new Steve Early is one of the bright boys of British Socialism: chunky, rumpled, pipe-smoking Francis Williams. Reporters from many nations had applauded Francis Williams' deft handling of British publicity at the San Francisco conference. He convinced Tory Anthony Eden that Britain stood to gain by letting the press in on what went on; consequently, the correspondents' behind-the-scenes picture came to them mostly through British eyes...
...that Damaskinos holds his Regency today, and keeps his Government in power, only with the support of the British Army in Greece. On their fateful visit to Athens last December, at the height of the tragic battle between Greek and Greek, and Greek and Briton, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden chose Damaskinos as the one Greek who might save his countrymen from themselves-and who might save Greece for Britain and the western world...
...reputations. Inside the Department he is known and admired for his thorough knowledge of Department procedure. Many on the outside consider him a man who married wealth (Armour) and adopted arch-conservative views. Jimmy Byrnes has found his departmental knowledge invaluable. (At a Potsdam session one day, Molotov and Eden suddenly began talking about Varkiza, the Greek village where the armistice in the civil war was signed. Lost in a fog, Jimmy Byrnes turned to Jimmy Dunn and blurted: "What the hell is Varkiza?" Jimmy Dunn was able to tell...
...London man in the street seemed pleased with "Ernie's" showing-the Empire was as safe in his hands as in Anthony Eden's. In Parliament the majority verdict was about the same. Remarked Tory Oliver Stanley as burly Ernest Bevin sat down: "My, hasn't Anthony put on a lot of weight lately...