Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude of each Great Power on the issue of butter was becoming last week vitally significant. Ministerpräsident General-Oberst Hermann Wilhelm Göring has now made the battle cry of Germany's present rearmament Four-Year Plan: "GUNS INSTEAD OF BUTTER!" Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week responded, in one of the ablest speeches he has ever made to the British nation, addressed to a London banquet: "We definitely prefer butter to guns...
...weighing Eden-on-butter against Göring-on-butter, neutral observers did not forget that the British Captain consistently weighs about 152 lb., while the German General-Oberst has dieted down in recent months some 25 lb. to about...
Germany and Italy told the world, not necessarily telling the whole truth, first that they will cooperate in Captain Eden's Spanish Non-intervention Committee at London to bar all further foreign volunteer soldiers and foreign munitions from the Spanish Civil War, in accordance with recent Franco-British proposals; and second that, between now and the time this anti-volunteers pact can be drafted, signed and sealed, both Italy and Germany will continue pouring volunteers and munitions into Spain, frankly anticipating victory for the Spanish Whites before the dawdling London Non-intervention Committee can agree on anything...
...entirely by sea as suggested by the Sunday Referee. Since the House of Commons is about to reconvene this was a good line for His Majesty's Government to take, in preparation for expected criticism from Labor M. P.'s to the effect that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's Non-intervention Committee on Spain is just so much humbug (TIME, Dec. 14). Cynically the London bureau of the New York Times cabled last week: "To keep public opinion behind him, if for no other reason, Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, will give the appearance of great energy between...
Behind the Dictator is the prostrate figure of Ethiopia, and behind Mr. Eden peer coyly from bushes Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, also in diaphanous costume and with cupid wings. Cries delighted II Duce in the Daily Worker's caption: "There are fairies at the bottom of my garden...