Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Anthony Eden heard that the Ethiopian Emperor had fled, that Addis Ababa was a shambles of wild disorder, that only the speedy arrival of Italian troops would save the lives of British subjects, he realized that he had steered British Foreign Policy onto the rocks. To his constituents in Leamington, he gloomily admitted defeat...
...early tea of Foreign Minister Anthony Eden last Sunday was the bitterest brew he had ever had to swallow. Read the dispatches any way he would, there was only one conclusion: Benito Mussolini had effectively smashed Ethiopia, wrecked the League of Nations and given British prestige an enormous black...
Almost as well groomed as Foreign Secretary Eden, War Secretary Duff Cooper spoils the effect of the most expensive Savile Row tailoring by a nervous habit of shoving both hands through the armholes of his vest while speaking, turning fiery red when excited...
...Italian Press Mr. Eden is being attacked with a lack of restraint which we must regret for what is regarded as an anti-Italian policy. I wish to make it clear beyond all doubt that the policy which the Foreign Secretary is conducting in this matter is not his own personal policy but the considered policy of the whole Government. Its motive is not to defeat or humiliate Italy but to support the Covenant of the League...
This was too strong for the French Government to let pass. It instructed its Ambassador at London to protest Aeroplane's wild slanders to the British Foreign Office. In the House of Commons Foreign Secretary Eden replied to a question: "On examining the article, I found that it contained a number of allegations of an offensive nature against France which were quite unfounded. ... I deplore such unfounded statements about friendly nations, which can only be regarded as mischievous and harmful to good international relations...