Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lean, birdlike Mrs. Anthony Eden made one of her extremely rare public appearances last week. To the members of the Conservative Women's Society, the wife of Britain's Foreign Minister declared: "I find myself with a husband who is working 16 hours a day. A lull in all the hurly-burly of international politics would be very welcome to me for it has made a diplomacy widow...
...Nations is the same thing as the Council of the League of Nations without Italy. Last week the League delegates from Argentina, Australia, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Great Britain. Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain and Turkey hitched themselves up to a green baize battle between handsome, toothy Anthony Eden of Great Britain and bald, moose-tall Pierre Etienne Flandin of France...
...Eden of Britain, Flandin of France, van Zeeland of Belgium, Baron Aloisi sent an embarrassing message...
...Foreign Secretary Eden to state his case. The use of poison gas against the Ethiopians was the point at issue, and he had eight specific instances of it between Dec. 30, and mid-March. The Suez Canal Co. reported that over 250 tons of Italian poison gas had passed the canal in the last four months. Italy must either agree to an immediate armistice or face an oil embargo, was the Eden ultimatum...
...British Press promptly nicknamed Lord Eustace "Stanley Baldwin's Thinking Machine." The Thinking Machine's first published thought was the announcement that the then Assistant Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was "the greatest diplomatic genius this country has produced for a generation." Since then Lord Eustace has painstakingly bombarded every other ministry with elaborate projects on what they should do for the next six months. Nobody paid any attention. Resigning last week he wrote Prime Minister Baldwin: "Let me assure you that I am in complete accord with the foreign policy of the Government, but I have always regarded...