Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Egypt-Although Captain Anthony Eden, the youngest (39) British Foreign Secretary since Earl Granville (36), in 1851, was suffering from an attack of chicken pox last week, just before he went to bed he presided in the magnificent "Locarno Room" of the British Foreign Office at the signing of a new Treaty of Alliance between Britain and Egypt (see cut). Some five months of expert drafting produced this pact and to get Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London...
...They were living at Hendaye, France, trying to agree on a diplomatic formula to be submitted to Spanish leaders of both sides urging them to "humanize the civil war and mitigate the sufferings." In this they were cheered on by that great humanitarian British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who dispatched from London a long and encouraging cable to Sir Henry Chilton. Even so, the only Ambassador in Spain last week remained Rosenberg...
With Sir Robert Vansittart in Berlin and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden vacationing in the country last week, the British Foreign Office happily came out with exactly the sort of announcement its civil servants love to make. Apropos of nothing they announced that His Majesty's Government have re-examined and consider fully binding upon themselves, "the Treaties of Alliance with Portugal, dating back...
...profession, and with Sir Robert at their elbow a succession of British Foreign Secretaries have finally seen the facts of British weakness and the necessity of most painfully kowtowing to Italy and Germany until Britain shall have Might again. In recent weeks, to watch Captain Anthony Eden, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, strolling with Sir Robert was to have the vivid impression of a nervous and doubtful youth comparatively safe in the hands of a robust British statesman...
...with the ominous proviso that it may reconvene "on five days notice" in case of emergency-i. e., war. So grave do M. P.'s consider the European situation that they asked and received Cabinet assurances that the Prime Minister will not leave England. Young Anthony Eden, the luckless Foreign Secretary, had to announce last week that Britain has further capitulated to Italy by abrogating upon specific demand by Benito Mussolini, the Mediterranean naval pacts she made with Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia as a "Sanction." German Questions as they emerged from the House of Commons' final debate...