Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord of the British Admiralty is always a potent personage, but last week Sir Samuel Hoare made a public speech in which he seemed to become the spokesman of the British Cabinet's foreign policy. It was proper for him to do so, since British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's prestige had last week reached lowest ebb. Sir Samuel was called back into the Cabinet fortnight ago as "The Man Who Was Right'' about Ethiopia (TIME, June 15). By implication Mr. Eden must have been, if not wrong, at least somewhat dim. Last week First Lord...
State for Foreign Affairs. Last week, however, Mr. Baldwin did not go so far as to turn Mr. Eden out and restore Sir Samuel to the Foreign Secretaryship. That would have been crass...
Seven months ago, when the Prime Minister needed to win Britain's last General Election, he turned the trick by having Anthony Eden appear dazzlingly in Britain's public eye as the Siegfried of Diplomacy, the handsome young man who was going to save Ethiopia from Italy with that flaming sword, the League of Nations. Having won the election Mr. Baldwin, who had created for "Tony" Eden the hitherto unheard of office of "Minister for League of Nations Affairs," sat back contentedly to let Ethiopia and Italy be dealt with in practical fashion by Sir Samuel Hoare, then...
...best professional brains of Whitehall, that astonishment was the mood of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin when he discovered that British public opinion considered this a "Dirty Deal," betraying not only Ethiopia but also the British voter who had balloted for honest Stanley Baldwin in the belief that his Siegfried Eden, plus the League of Nations, plus the British Navy were going to bluff Benito Mussolini clean out of Ethiopia...
...bluff "The Deal" through with the claim that if only his lips could be unsealed its virtues would be clear (TIME, Dec. 23), finally did a public reverse and spurned "The Deal." Promptly Sir Samuel Hoare insisted on resigning as Foreign Secretary and was succeeded by Mr. Anthony Eden, of whom the Prime Minister later said: "He enjoys my entire confidence and may remain Foreign Secretary for the next 20 years...