Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refusing to send a delegation to Brussels and urging the Conference to face "realities" (see col. j), there was no stomach for courting a Rebuff No. 3 among the tea-drinking statesmen of the Great Powers.* The so-called "Big Three"-Their Excellencies Norman Davis of Washington, Anthony Eden of London and Yvon Delbos of Paris-decided to wind up the Conference at once if possible, joined in drafting for this purpose a resolution in which the Conference was to adopt toward Japan an attitude of purely verbal ostracism with these words: "It is clear that the Japanese concept...
...order to get the full cooperation, on an equal basis, of the United States Government in an international conflict," added Mr. Eden, "I would travel not only from Geneva to Brussels but from Melbourne to Alaska!" To this speech the House responded with the loudest cheers it has ever given Secretary Eden...
Just before leaving London for Brussels, willowy, young British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that the United Kingdom will "go as far as the United States, in full agreement with them-not rushing ahead and not being left behind ... in this dangerous and difficult Far East situation...
...Brussels, President Roosevelt's perennial Ambassador-at-Large, grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis, was encouraged by all to make the first speech at the Conference. He did so. If the President and Mr. Davis had cared to take Mr. Eden at his solemn word, they could have proposed vigorous action to "quarantine world lawlessness," and the United Kingdom would have been bound to follow in giving the Conference a shove in that direction. Instead, the keynote struck by Ambassador Davis was: "We come to this Conference to study with our colleagues the problems which concern...
...luck to be ashore when the natives returned to attack the ship, which fled for good. Only one of the four to escape, he lived in a cave until his quick wit and civilized gadgets awed the natives into accepting him as a reborn god. From then on his Eden-like life was complicated by nothing more serious than the easily outwitted jealousy of a native chief and by the natives' insistence that he take a beautiful 14-year-old girl as his mistress to prepare her, according to strict native custom, for her husband. Gonzalo balked for moral...