Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look like a sick man?" asked Mr. Eden, in answer to rumors that his resignation had been caused by ill health. "I resigned because no other course was open to me! His Majesty's Government believe that their new policy, while risky, must ultimately succeed and must contribute to the peace of Europe. Unhappily I cannot believe this-indeed I believe exactly the opposite-so how could I recommend such a course to the House of Commons? If I had done so. I should have been a hypocrite...
Repeating his accusation that Mussolini had told Britain she must enter negotiations "now or never," Eden continued. "Is it to be 'an agreement, when you can get it, negotiated on a solid basis' or is it to be 'an agreement, if you can get it, regardless of the basis...
Herbert Morrison, Laborite "Mayor of London": "Eden was stabbed in the back with an Italian stiletto...
...count myself as firm a friend of France as my right honorable friend [Eden] !" cried Mr. Chamberlain. "I have always taken the view that the question of formal recognition of the Italian position in Ethiopia was one that could only morally be justified if it was found to be a factor-an essential factor-in general appeasement. . . . The peace of Europe must depend upon the attitude of four major powers-Germany, Italy, France and ourselves. ... If we can bring these four nations into friendly discussion and into the settlement of their differences we shall have saved the peace of Europe...
...hours after handsome Anthony Eden resigned as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Glasgow haberdashers marked down the Eden-style black Homburg from ?1 to four shillings. In London's West End, however, it still held its own. "It has too much character," said one Mayfair hatter, "to be blown off by a political breeze...