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...months after he had called off his country's invasion of Suez, Sir Anthony Eden resigned as Prime Minister, leaving a nation divided at home, humiliated abroad, gravely weakened in its alliances. Sick and saddened. Eden declined the earldom that goes, by long tradition, to departing Prime Ministers. Unlike Sir Winston Churchill, who refused a dukedom rather than forgo his lifelong passion for the House of Commons. Eden felt that he was too weakened by a major abdominal ailment even to make a nominal showing in the House of Lords...
What Shakespeare did work at creating is the romantic, sunny gaeity that pervades the fairy-tale forest of Arden (which is only one phoneme away from both Eden and ardor). At Stratford, currently, the idyllic glow is enhanced by Robert O'Hearn's scenery, Tharon Musser's lighting, and some of David Amram's music...
Israeli Prosecutor Gideon Hausner then introduced a series of secret wartime documents that seemed aimed more at the Western Allies than at Eichmann. In a 1944 interview in London, Zionist Elder Dr. Chaim Weizmann begged then Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to start negotiations with the Nazis through neutral channels to get the Jews out of Europe. Eden reportedly answered that the "enemy is playing a devilish game," adding vaguely that "moreover, we have to carry America and Russia along with us." In July 1944, Weizmann urged that, as a desperate move. Auschwitz should be bombed in the hope of knocking...
...worm of factional politics corrupts this Eden. A handsome young Fascist operative appears in the neighborhood and high-pressures a pitiable old spinster to inform on the local Italian colony. A militant anti-Fascist friend of Daniele's beats the Fascist agent bloody. Unbeknownst to Daniele, the wounded agent is brought to the farm, and in 48 hours of nursing him, Silvia falls wildly in love with the stranger. He represents himself as a respectable accountant, and Silvia's mother is all for a wedding, but the story ends instead in an agony of divided loyalties, with each...
...Conservative Party passed a notable political milestone last week. It has held office continuously, first under Winston Churchill, then under Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, for 9½ years-longer than any other party in 20th century Britain. As if to celebrate, the Tories scored impressive new victories in the latest round of county council elections in England and Wales. In three of England's most important counties-Lancashire, Middlesex and Essex-Labor lost control to the Conservatives. All in all, Macmillan's men stole away 196 seats (out of 3,974 at stake...