Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British fleet. Last week the decisions reached fortnight ago at Nyon for naval co-operation by Britain and France to patrol the Mediterranean and destroy "pirate submarines"* (TIME, Sept. 20), were whipped into final shape at Geneva by the two foreign ministers chiefly concerned, Britain's Anthony Eden and France's Yvon Delbos. They used the Hotel des Bergues, where many of the League of Nations' most vital decisions are made in bedroom conferences, and before the week was out Britain, France and their satellite nations had agreed to hunt in the Mediterranean not only "pirate submarines...
...difference in the conduct of international conferences that are determined on action and the usual gingerly debates of the League of Nations. Sea-potent Britain was obviously going to call this Conference's tunes and she had sent to Geneva her hot-tempered, obstinate Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden. The British plan he brought had already been approved by France, and in short order this week the other conferees sat down and signed it. It provided that "neutral shipping lanes," in general synonymous with the present Mediterranean shipping lanes, be established and patrolled by the fleets of the nine...
Though the London Times is the mouthpiece of the British Government as a whole, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden has a still more personal mouthpiece in the Yorkshire Post, in which his wife's family has interests. Very much blunter was the Yorkshire Post editorial of the same date: "Could any impertinence be more naive? Could any illustrate better THE SEEMINGLY persistent incapacity of the German to realize the other fellow's point of view? Reverse the positions-suppose Eden and Chamberlain were to come out on the platform of an official body designed to organize every Englishman living...
...blood transfusion. Instead of making a formal apology the Japanese rebuked the British Ambassador for not having a Union Jack spread on the roof of his car. The attitude of Whitehall to this attack on the sacrosanct person of their Ambassador was "one of unbounded exasperation." Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden promised to take "appropriate measures," dispatched a note to Tokyo...
...many blandishments while he was making for Ethiopia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.)- who convinced the British that if they are to retain effective control of Egypt they must do so even more unobtrusively. Thus a new Anglo-Egyptian Treaty was signed by Premier Nahas and Mr. Anthony Eden on cream-colored parchment tied with blue ribbons at the British Foreign Office (TIME, Sept...