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...Britain's get-tough policy on Cyprus began abruptly last March within a week after the unceremonious ouster of Britain's Glubb Pasha from Jordan. Sir Anthony Eden and his imperial advisers decided to consolidate their hold on Cyprus at all costs, to defend their threatened position in the Middle East oil zone. This ugly situation jeopardizes NATO, which seeks new tasks for itself; yet NATO has sought to avoid trouble by ignoring it. Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak has proposed that NATO step in to supervise Cyprus' future self-determination...
Just as the Socialists seemed about to take all the credit for standing up to the Russians, the Manchester Guardian published a list of 200 political prisoners which, the paper declared, Prime Minister Anthony Eden had handed to the Russians with a plea for their release. In Commons, Eden was the properly outraged diplomat. He had, he conceded, entered a private plea with the Russians to release religious and political prisoners in the satellite countries, but he had not "handed in this list, or any other list." He added: "I want to get results," and talked as if he still...
...Anthony Eden cannot be too pleased with the visit, but it must be remembered that the burden of accomplishment was on the Russians, who had wanted to make the trip in the first place. The Soviet leaders were not seriously interested in concluding agreements on world problems. They had hoped to achieve personal popularity which could have caused much mischief between Britain and her ally the United States. In this they failed...
Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden came out of the whole thing looking better. The original invitation might have been a mistake, but the good sense of the British public and the steadfastness of the British government in its devotion to the Western alliance rendered baseless most of the earlier fears...
...secret number Whitehall 5422, give the code number 1785, then the code word 'curtain raiser,' and you will be put straight through to the Prime Minister!" Delighted to hear such hush-hush information, hundreds rushed to their telephones to pass the time of day with Sir Anthony Eden, succeeded only in clogging the Cabinet Office's tie line to 10 Downing Street...