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Despite his burnished Jamaica tan, Eden was still a very sick man. In Jamaica he had suffered a recurrence of fever and of the stomach trouble for which he had earlier been operated on three times-the last time in a delicate and rare operation to remove an obstacle in the bile duct, at Boston's famed Lahey Clinic in 1953. Reports trickled back from the Caribbean that he had sometimes waked shouting in the night. At Cabinet meetings, colleagues noticed that his cheeks were hollow, his face lined, his eyes tired and lackluster. "He could still lose...
...Parliament Eden doggedly defended his policies. Before the Christmas recess, he answered a last question: "I would be compelled, if I had the same very disagreeable decisions to take again, to repeat them." Those were to be the last words he was ever to speak in his 34 years in the House of Commons. As the Speaker broke in to move adjournment, Eden fell back onto his seat, head lolling on the green cushioning as he stared vacantly upward. Only when a colleague tugged at his arm did he heave himself to his feet and walk into the lobby...
Lonely Journey. Over the Christmas holidays Eden's doctors hustled down to Chequers several times. A week ago, intimates knew that Eden had reached a decision. The secret was closely held, eluded all the London press. No one even suspected when on Tuesday Eden and his wife boarded a train at London's Liverpool Street station and journeyed 100 miles north into the bleak Norfolk flatlands to see Queen Elizabeth at her country estate at Sandringham. There Eden told her of his decision...
...Edens, returning by train, reached 10 Downing Street at 2 p.m. The Queen followed by car, arrived at Buckingham Palace at 5:20 p.m. Twenty minutes before. Eden had confronted his hurriedly assembled Cabinet ministers. Briefly and curtly, toying with a pencil in his fluttering fingers. Sir Anthony explained that his doctors declared his health was giving them cause for concern. There were very difficult times ahead, and he felt it his duty to say forthwith that his health was not good enough to sustain him through these tasks. The formal visit to Buckingham Palace followed...
Final Failure. The resignation, even though it was inevitable, caused a momentous shock, not only in Britain but also around the world. For few men had ever seemed more thoroughly equipped by education and experience for leadership than Anthony Eden. Descendant of a centuries-old landed family, educated at Eton and Oxford, decorated for gallantry in World War I. Foreign Secretary at 38, Eden was the handsome glamour boy of the prewar international scene, made himself the hero of millions when he resigned in 1938 to protest Chamberlain's policies of appeasement. He was probably the most skilled diplomatic...