Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What to do about the great rupture was scheduled to be decided at Geneva. Setting out by way of Paris, Britain's handsome young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was accompanied by the Lord Privy Seal, Viscount Halifax, generally considered pro-German. In a parting speech to the House of Commons the Foreign Secretary had indicated that since the Versailles and Locarno eggs had been broken there was nothing to do but hatch new pacts and trust Germany not to break them...
...Eden's frown and Flandin's cracking...
...obvious to every European was the effect Herr Hitler's intimidation was having upon Britain-what with Foreign Secretary Eden urging not punishment of Germany but consideration of the treaty-breaker's terms -that Mr. Baldwin instinctively asserted the contrary, whistling to keep up Britain's courage. "Neither His Majesty's Government nor this people would ever be intimidated by threats," he boomed. "As a nation we could go on longer than others and, if driven to it [war] we should not hesitate!" After these words of fire, the Prime Minister, conscious that it will take...
...Stavisky bloodshed by beloved onetime President Gaston ("Papa Gastounet") Doumergue. Suddenly recalled by duty from retirement to the dirty job of Premier, "Papa" Doumergue chose as his Foreign Minister, venerable Louis Barthou, who proceeded to surprise all Europe by showing even more energy than such young sprigs as Anthony Eden...
...centering on these two rather long and sharp thorns in the olive branch extended by the Fuehrer, and the solon of France are carefully scrutinizing them under their high-powered microscopes to see wherein lies the rub. Clearly there is something which has aroused the suspicious of Flandin, Eden, Benes, Litvinoff and the other members of the continental brain-trust...