Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great was the Cabinet's anxiety that it decided Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden must swallow his Yorkshire pride, ask Italian Ambassador Count Dino Grandi to transmit a "personal appeal" to Premier Mussolini to keep the Bari station quiet about partition of Palestine. Since elegant Mr. Eden two years ago had an encounter with the Dictator at which they exchanged high words and parted on terms of mutual contempt (TIME, July 8, 1935), the Personal sacrifice asked of the young British Foreign Secretary last week was great. Count Grandi few days later brought the British Cabinet an especially courteous cable...
...House of Commons, statements made by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week gave everyone an impression that His Majesty's Government was going to recognize the Spanish Rightists as a true government having "belligerent rights"¶until suddenly this was postponed to enable the new French Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps to win needed votes from the French Communists (see p. 21). Exclaimed David Lloyd George: "Unless there is more courage and steadfastness, the foreign policy of Britain is doomed...
Foreign Secretary Eden kept interjecting that it would be easy for His Majesty's Government to seem courageous, but only at the expense of the peace of Europe. Therefore the Government's policy, said Mr. Eden, is "peace at almost any price." The Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, took occasion to call Britain's placid Government "swine" and their Conservative supporters at one point in the confused debate took to chanting "Peace! Peace! Peace...
...brought Mr. Eden flying back from Geneva ahead of time in order to give him new instructions...
...general feeling that he would be a good Chancellor of the Exchequer but to the fact that he heads a minute political party, the "Simonite Liberals," whose support the Prime Minister needs in order to maintain the "National" (i.e., coalition) character of his Cabinet. Similarly, Mr. Eden continues at the Foreign Office chiefly because Conservative Party electioneers think the British public still believe he is the shining Galahad of the League of Nations-although on the quiet at Geneva Mr. Eden has become a chronic misser of tricks for the League. Realistic Neville Chamberlain, his friends intimated this week...