Word: eden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week the bitterest and most divisive British political controversy of modern times flared into renewed life. Once again Englishmen argued in passionate detail the rights and wrongs of the Suez invasion of 1956. Cause of the furor: publication of Full Circle, the memoirs of former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden...
...array of Dumbarton Oaks exclusives elevated Reston to the top rank of Washington correspondents. Other exclusive stories followed with impressive rapidity. At the San Francisco United Nations conference in 1945, the press corps gathered for an important press conference at which the key figure was Britain's Anthony Eden. The Times expected Reston to handle the story, but he could not be found. Then a door opened, and Eden strolled in chatting confidentially with a man at his side-Scotty Reston...
...Bulganin's private 1955 explanation to Eden at Geneva, as to why Khrushchev & Co. could not then agree to German reunification: The new Khrushchev regime was "reasonably solidly based in the country," but if they had gone home proclaiming the reunification of Germany, "neither the army nor the people would understand, and this was no time to weaken the government. The people would say that this was something Stalin would have never agreed...
...claim of a syndicate of Southern California entrepreneurs who last week announced plans for a Biblical version of Disneyland that should render much coin unto Caesar. Built in the shape of a heart ("symbolic of God's love") and subdivided into six freewheeling reproductions of the Garden of Eden, Rome, Babylon, Israel, Egypt and Ur, the amusement park is scheduled to open Easter Sunday 1961, when tens of thousands can be expected to make the 4O-mile, eight-cylinder pilgrimage from Los Angeles to the site at Cucamonga...
Whose Version? Unhappily aware that Eden's most controversial charges-those dealing with Dulles' role in the Suez crisis-were still to come, most U.S. and British officials last week tactfully avoided comment on the memoirs. A notable exception was Dwight Eisenhower who at his weekly press conference declared that "there was never any plan [for military intervention in Indo-China] developed to be put into execution." The President tempered his denial by adding that Eden was "not an irresponsible person" and undoubtedly was "writing the story as he believes...