Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anthony Eden, after staying with his sister on the French Riviera since his resignation as Foreign Secretary, quietly returned to London, last week made a little speech. "I am a convinced believer in democracy, yet it would be foolish, perhaps fatal, to the very survival of democracy to ignore the stupendous achievements realized under other forms of government!" cried Orator Eden, addressing the annual dinner of the Royal Society of St. George...
...will get on well with Dictator Mussolini, to whom he is carrying a warm message of personal regard from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Premier Mussolini has not been visited by any member of a British Cabinet since June 2 5, 1935-the fateful summer day on which Mr. Anthony Eden had a personal quarrel in Rome with the Dictator which affected the whole history of contemporary Europe. Just before the War Secretary left England by plane for Malta, where he will inspect naval defenses before going to Rome this week, Leslie Hore-Belisha predicted...
...more bye-elections are due soon, and last week the Prime Minister and new Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax swung into a series of local addresses by which they hope to educate British public opinion in their real points of view. Of Anthony Eden, Lord Halifax said: "I look forward to the time when the country will again enjoy the benefit of his service and guidance in its administration! . . . It is no fault of the League of Nations and still less of His Majesty's Government, but . . . if we were to act as some suggest and try to organize...
...without any opponent having dared to stand against him, another in which the Conservative candidate was defeated by Laborite Dr. Edith Summerskill, who thus becomes the twelfth female M.P. Dr. Summerskill had fought her Labor campaign as much as possible in the vein of defending handsome young Conservative Anthony Eden against the Conservative Prime Minister, so His Majesty's Government were chagrined to lose this bye-election...
...MIRROR TO GENEVA - George Slocombe-Holt ($3). Expert characterizations of such League of Nations heroes as Briand, Stresemann, Eden, written with the polite air of a chairman introducing the speakers of the evening...