Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forced to forego her own honeymoon twelve years ago because of her husband's first political campaign, Mrs. Eden was a diplomacy widow again last week at her sister's wedding to Dr. Bathhurst Norman in Yorkshire. Captain Eden had spent a hectic week-end in Britain but was forced to entrain for Geneva on the very morning of the wedding. It was increasingly evident to newshawks, however, that if diplomacy had made a widow out of Mrs. Eden. Benito Mussolini had made a monkey out of her husband...
Whooping it up in Geneva fortnight ago for stiffer sanctions against Italy or an immediate armistice, Foreign Minister Eden returned to London over the week-end for a few cool words of advice from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
...else at the present time. Britain's foreign policy for seven months has been based on the fond belief that Benito Mussolini was bluffing. Seven months of diplomatic failures had brought Stanley Baldwin to the realization that Benito Mussolini was not bluffing. He sympathized wholeheartedly with young Mr. Eden's idealistic point of view. Every wise Briton was aware that Italian conquest of Ethiopia, now at hand, might easily mean the end of British domination in the Mediterranean and the beginning of a serious rebellion in Egypt. But for the time being there was nothing to do about...
...chastened mood Anthony Eden went back to Geneva, leaving his little son Nicholas to act as page at his sister-in-law's wedding. At the same time Ethiopia's Minister to London, Dr. Azaj Wargnek Martin, suddenly found it impossible to obtain further British credits to buy munitions...
Just before leaving Geneva for London Foreign Minister Eden had swallowed a bitter pill. The basis of his case against Italy was the use of poison gas against unprotected villages. Most of this evidence was in the hands of the International Red Cross. Somebody, French or Italian, had evidently reached the ear of Swiss Max Huber, president of the International Red Cross, which suddenly refused to present its evidence to the League of Nations' Committee of Thirteen. In a pouring rain Anthony Eden went for a long walk in Geneva's Mon Repos Park, stood for a long...