Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Commons His Majesty's Loyal Opposition have about 185 votes. Last week on the issue of Neville Chamberlain's new foreign policy-rapprochement with Italy and Germany, the issue which caused Anthony Eden's resignation (TIME, Feb. 28)-the Opposition voted 167 strong against the Government. They won over to their side just one Conservative, Mr. Vyvyan Adams, an official of the British League of Nations Union...
...opposition vote did not show the extent of the crisis. About 100 M. P.s who normally support the Government abstained from voting. Among them were Anthony Eden himself, Lord Cranborne (Eden's undersecretary who resigned with him) and Eden's prominent Conservative supporter, Winston Churchill. The Cabinet was finally upheld by a safe margin...
...Prime Minister said: "As a result of my conversation today with the Italian Ambassador, I never was more convinced of the right of any decision than that which the Cabinet took Sunday" [drop ping Eden...
...Chamberlain finally told the House straight out that Mussolini thought the retention of Eden as Foreign Secretary had meant that Britain "was trying to lull the Italians into inactivity while Britain completed her rearmament and was in a position to take revenge for Ethiopia. That idea is fantastic and never entered our heads, but it is the idea held in Rome...
Final sensation in the House of Commons lobby was the invasion of a turbulent British crowd shouting "Chamberlain must go! Hitler and Mussolini shall not dictate to Britain! Arms and food for Spain! Eden must stay!" Police drove them...