Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, a diplomat of the old regime and no Nazi hothead, who was coming to London last week. The pro-German clique in Mayfair was purring. Anthony Eden had plucked up courage to ignore wholly unproved German charges that a Leftist Spanish torpedo or submarine had "grazed and dented" the German cruiser Leipzig. Finally, the German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop, extremely unpopular in London, was supposed to have been only bluffing when he demanded, a few days prior, that Britain and France join Germany and Italy in staging a mighty four-power naval demonstration...
this was a good deal more than most British or French editors cared to swallow and their tart comments made Adolf Hitler angrier still, as the Government of His Britannic Majesty learned with grave concern. King George VI was so worried that harassed Anthony Eden was kept reporting constantly in person at Buckingham Palace...
...British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, since he is now bossing Mr. Eden's every move (see p. 16), to rise in the House of Commons and either publicly swallow what so many Britons could not swallow last week, or take a dominant line with Hitler & Mussolini. These dictators had meanwhile announced that, while Germany and Italy would not withdraw from the London Nonintervention Committee on Spain, they would withdraw their warships from its neutral patrol of Spanish waters. In this move by Rome & Berlin, Prime Minister Chamberlain saw an opening to suggest that British and French ships would...
...February 26-Insist on the eventuality that Eden may leave the Foreign Office post...
...Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras, temporary President of the League Assembly. The occasion was the formal admission of Egypt as the 61st nation to become a full-fledged member of the League. Most graceful of the 20 speeches of welcome came from Britain's dandified Anthony Eden...