Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just the old sex bogey dressed up in new clothes again. If there's too much sex in the world we didn't put it there. It started in the Garden of Eden. As a matter of fact we're trying to get the patient away from sex overemphasis. Many of the patients think the whole world's attention is centred on the midsection of the human body...
...Anthony Eden banged on the table : "I invite the delegate from Ethiopia to take his place at the Council table for discussion of this question...
...wants for Germany is today Europe's most momentous secret. In March the Realmleader sent German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland and a fine-sounding set of peace proposals to Britain (TIME, April 13, et ante). It occurred to Britain's earnest young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that perhaps the best way to find out what Adolf Hitler was thinking was to ask him. He wrote down a list of questions to which honest answers from Hitler would certainly be useful. He sent his manuscript to Pierre Etienne Flandin for additions, which the French Foreign Minister cheerfully supplied...
Last week the British Cabinet finished a two-week job of editing and polishing Mr. Eden's questions, after which the extraordinary document was dispatched to Britain's Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps to be handed to Adolf Hitler. All the good Conservative caution and breeding of which British gentlemen are capable had gone into toning down the original questions. In the whole document there was not a single question mark. Cabinet members had struck out all reference to Austria, Memel, Eupen and Malmedy, keeping those possible objectives of Adolf Hitler beyond the pale of polite conversation...
...officially-inspired German Press chorused that der Führer had already told the world everything that Mr. Eden wanted to know. The German Foreign Office sat down to take as long as it dared to frame an answer, figuring that the mere passage of time would deflate the so-called Rhineland crisis...