Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhineland as fast as possible made the interest of His Majesty's Government in the British White Paper diminish even further. To find out exactly where the British stood a French delegate to the League Council in London, famed trial Lawyer Joseph Paul-Boncour, visited Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, then flew to Paris. Said he: "The only answer I received was a movement of the head-neither positive nor negative...
Finally the officially injured Locarno Powers (Britain, France, Italy and Belgium) adopted and sent to the guilty State proposals which M. Flandin said were the minimum France could accept and which British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said were submitted to evoke from Germany either acceptance or counter proposals. Exhausted Mr. Eden then took a nap in the Foreign Office, after which he motored to spend a quiet country weekend with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Behind him he left instructions that he could not be reached by telephone unless the call was from Berlin. Exhausted Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain...
Amid echoes of recent Russo-Japanese border fighting and with the general European situation anything but halcyon, the note of friendship struck at the London Naval Conference loses nothing by contrast. Indeed, the Davis-Eden exchange of assurances is perhaps the only clearly perceivable result of many months of arduous but ineffectual labor...
Confronted by what is admitted to be the worst international crisis since the War, the League of Nations has done all that was expected of it--nothing. The enraged Flandin of a week ago has cooled down under the soothing effects of Eden's dilatory tactics and has even been induced to reach into the international grab-bag to pull out whatever he can. His plum consists of the proposal that a demilitarized zone policed by British and Italian troops be set up in the Rhineland, an offer which M. Flandin must know as well as Eden that the Hitler...
This week French spokesmen stubbornly maintained that their Foreign Minister's stand remained unchanged. But after high-pressure conferences with M. Flandin. Captain Eden had been able to offer Realmleader Hitler "assurances" concerning the discussion of his peace proposals which brought from Berlin prompt notice that a German delegation would be in London within the week...