Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensation by leaving for the south of France, vowing: "The British Empire and France have been maneuvered into the worst possible strategic position. . . ." Much was made of the fact that also in the south of France last week were Lord Baldwin, his original protégé, Mr. Eden, and his pet aversion, Winston Churchill. It was suggested in the Leftist press that this galaxy of big British names might suddenly join with "the Hore-Belisha Young Turks" and it was said that Hore-Belisha had given Neville Chamberlain a "48-hour ultimatum." The 48 hours expired, and nothing happened...
Wishing to take a vacation incognito, Britain's popular ex-Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disguised himself, passed through London's thronged Victoria Station, entrained for the Riviera (see p. 21) unrecognized. His disguise: a brown felt hat instead of curled-brim black Homburg...
...night after Anthony Eden resigned, Britons who gave the Communist salute led a crowd which whirled into the great octagonal Central Hall of the House of Commons, crying out against the Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 28). This week Mr. Eden, had he cared to make difficulties for the Prime Minister who forced his resignation, could easily have provoked a monster demonstration. Instead "Tony" Eden, a British aristocrat who thinks first of being true to his class, kept away from his seat in the House of Commons, remained with his sister the Countess of Warwick at her villa on the French...
...cruise of Velero III, a 195-foot, steel superyacht equipped with tanks, cages, diving helmets, dredging apparatus, Hancock found "Eden," the idyllic home on Galapagan Charles Island of toothless Escapist Dr. Frederick Ritter and his toothless common-law wife Frau Dore Koerwin. Three years later he discovered on Marchena the twisted, mummified body of Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, castoff tuberculous lover of a Galapagan lady, the Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrborn, whose favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled pistol...
...superb timer that he is, he will wait, it may be a month, it may be two before he again moves. Meanwhile, Italy will debate on whether Germany or England offers the best security and probably lean toward the latter. With Chamberlain's policy of dictator-bargaining ruined, Eden will be redeemed and Italy's favor courted. Today, the fifteenth of March, both England and France and Italy are trembling with doubt and fear, and whatever dire prophecies they make, these former allies must realize that right still will be might...