Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden signed the Anglo-Egyptian treaty in the magnificent "Locarno Room" of the British Foreign Office (TIME, Sept. 7) he intimated that Britain was no longer Egypt's boss but her "partner." As an earnest of good will the British Government promised to urge at Geneva admission of Egypt to the League of Nations, promised to ask eleven other States, which like Britain have long enjoyed extraterritorial rights ("capitulations") for their citizens in Egypt, to surrender them...
...Sugar was in no sense the point of this Sugar Conference and that he could have no possible role in the hotel-room sessions of the Great Powers and their European satellites, left London early Thursday morning for what he called a "little Paris weekend." Ambassador Davis, Foreign Secretary Eden, French Minister of National Economy Charles Spinasse, German Ambassador von Ribbentrop and Dutch Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn talked about lowering tariffs, applying brakes to the Rearmament race, somehow dealing with Europe's debts to the U. S. before there is another war, and causing overproduction of such commodities...
...this doomed little ship and her doomed company and sail for southern seas? He has a map of a fine Caribbean island he discovered when he was in the China trade. Why not rescue these poor people out of the chains of their industrial civilization, place them in the Eden they vainly seek each Sunday on the Happiness bound for Coney...
...thinkers--philosophers we term them--have envisioned Utopias, Paradise, Fountains of Youth like Hilton's "Shangri-la". The Utopia of the young Englishman is situated obscurely beyond the last bit of civilization amid the white mountains of Tibet. To this impossible place is brought kidnapped Robert Conway, England's Eden-to-be. The High Llama, a French priest who stumbled upon Shangri-la in 1713 and claims to be over 200 years, old, informs Conway that he is to guard like a monk of the Middle Ages the treasures of the world in the face of its inevitable destruction...
...with British statesmen on the third day, at last returned briskly to Brussels, his capital. In official British circles it was intimated that informal agreements had been reached all along the line. Some of these will be implemented in treaty form, and for purposes of signing Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden may go to Brussels. Apparently the Belgian King and British statesmen are satisfied that...