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...Secretary Selwyn Lloyd would fly off to Moscow Feb. 21 for a ten-day state visit. In Paris Macmillan's decision aroused grumbles that this was an odd time for a British Prime Minister to decide to accept an invitation which the Soviets first extended to Sir Anthony Eden 2½ years ago. But U.S. leaders raised not a peep. Having just played host to Mikoyan, they were scarcely in a position to complain. And they felt no need...
Former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, following the titled Englishman's traditional way to pin money, put some furniture on sale at Sotheby's auction rooms in London, realized $271.60 for a pair of four-poster beds, $1,232 for two 18th century bookcases...
...proper caste marks (Eton, Oxford, Grenadier Guards), but he also likes to think for himself. First he expressed his opposition to capital punishment, for which some of Bournemouth's retired officers and wealthy widows have never forgiven him. Worst of all, Backbencher Tory Nicolson publicly criticized Sir Anthony Eden's Suez invasion. Outraged, local Tory leaders formally forbade members of the local party to have any contact with him, and pointedly announced that in the next election, Bournemouth East's Tory candidate would be Major James Friend -a huntin' and shootin' Staffordshire squire given...
...never stops his headlong pace to speak or idle with his office staff, lunches hurriedly in the executive dining room before closeting himself for the afternoon with executives to discuss problems ("Let's start from the Garden of Eden and work this through"). Each evening he takes home a portfolio of work-and expects other G.E. executives to do the same...
...Anthony Eden. "I admired not only his brilliant intelligence, his knowledge of affairs, and the charm of his manners, but also the art he had of creating and maintaining around the negotiation a sympathetic atmosphere which favored agreement when that was possible and avoided wounds when...