Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany. Into the silence came bad news. The British had decided to fulfill their legal duty under the Locarno Pact, to engage in military staff conversations with France and Belgium to prepare for possible "unprovoked aggression'' against them during the period of negotiation. True, Foreign Minister Eden had told Ambassador von Ribbentrop that these talks were not to be directed against Germany. Nevertheless the British Cabinet was scheduled to meet in two days to decide when and where to hold them. Suddenly the Wilhelmstrasse had an extraordinary case of jitters...
...Foreign Office Division Chief Dr. Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff, and 26 other experts, he led the huge German delegation by air to London. The German diplomatist was at the British Foreign Office at the unprecedented hour of 9:55 o'clock the next morning, two minutes before Captain Eden...
French Peace. The tone of the French Press was that of an aging coquette whose friends are about to leave her. But she had their friendship in black & white. Wearied by French intransigence, Britain's Foreign Secretary Eden suggested that the Powers next meet, not in the stuffy boudoir atmosphere of Brussels or Paris but in the cool objective air of Geneva...
...Impertinence, etc." To this "irresistibly attractive" spiel, the British Foreign Office did not respond like a German election crowd. It looked in vain for one "positive" amelioration of the fact that after all Hitler had violated two international treaties when his soldiers marched into the Rhineland. Foreign Secretary Eden read the document's 3,000 words through carefully, listened to Ambassador von Ribbentrop's further remarks and strode to No. 10 Downing Street where waited the British Cabinet...
...British Cabinet listened to Mr. Eden, then coldly agreed that the staff conversations with France and Belgium must begin soon and if possible in London, decided further to send letters to the French and Belgian Governments guaranteeing Britain's assistance in case of war. Mr. Eden announced that the German Peace Plan, though far from satisfactory, was certainly "conciliatory." Could not Germany, Mr. Eden asked, promise at least not to fortify the Rhineland during the period of negotiation? Ambassador von Ribbentrop thought not. Anyway, he said, four months was obviously too short a time in which to match...