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Word: edens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question in London as the week opened: Have Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden quarreled fundamentally about the foreign policy to be pursued by His Majesty's Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Deal | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...Adolf Hitler who brought the long latent Chamberlain-Eden quarrel to a crisis. The action of the Fuhrer fortnight ago, after cracking down on German Army leaders, of appointing as his Foreign Secretary dynamic, scheming, adventurous Joachim von Ribbentrop, was taken by the English as a storm signal for Europe, especially since last week Ribbentrop was closeted with the Dictator in his mountain retreat. With what policies should His Majesty's Government seek to steer majestically through the storm? It came to Mr. Eden's ears that Mr. Chamberlain, in commenting to other members of the Cabinet upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Deal | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Several times before Anthony Eden had taken this kind of thing in silence. Last week he acted, went from London to Birmingham, famed political stronghold of the Chamberlain family, and there made a speech to 2,500 young Conservative constituents of the Prime Minister which was a direct thrust at Neville Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Deal | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...strict amenities of British politics were observed, for Mr. Eden coldly said: ''During the last few months Mr. Chamberlain and myself have worked in close contact." But the rest of his speech warmly, even passionately, implied what has been common knowledge in Fleet Street: that the Prime Minister, ever since he succeeded Stanley Baldwin last May, has been pressing Mr. Eden to end his personal vendetta with Signor Mussolini, swallow his repugnance for Herr Hitler, and make a "business" deal with Italy and Germany at the expense of "principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Deal | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...week two British freighters were sunk by "pirate craft" in Spanish waters. This week it was reported in Paris that something like a "blockade" of Italian submarine bases in the Balearics was contemplated by the British and French navies. More substantial was the announcement by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to a cheering House of Commons that "His Majesty's Government will not tolerate that submarines be submerged in the patrol zones" and that submerged submarines would be attacked on sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Submerged Submarines | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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