Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seyoum and Ras Kassa. If they could be annihilated, the world would be in a mood to agree that "the Ethiopians are licked!" Politically such a world opinion would do Italy the most good if it coincided with this week's arrival in Geneva of Captain Anthony Eden of Great Britain and his League colleagues to decide whether it is best for humanity that more stringent sanctions be imposed on Italy...
...have seen our ancient friendship and our valuable trade with Italy disappear, never to return. Who knows what else Mr. Eden is up to? Who knows what meddlesome trouble Public Liability No. 1 is hatching in the seclusion of the Foreign Office? What may he not be saying to this Ambassador or that? What folly or danger is there into which the egocentricity of a somewhat superior person with no discretion and a sharp tongue cannot plunge us? "Can we afford dangerous Mr. Eden with the European situation rapidly deteriorating? At a time when it is absolutely vital that...
...This bribing of other nations to blockade Italy economically in the name of the League of Nations is a gross and unprecedented breach of the laws of neutrality," continued London's Evening News. "The Garden of Eden, as everybody knows, was ruined by a snake. The sanctioneers' Eden, it would appear, is to be saved by a pig-and a Yugoslavian pig at that...
Matter for Indifference. Meanwhile at the Foreign Office last week Anthony Eden faced the startling fact that Benito Mussolini had somehow obtained and made public in Rome a confidential report to the British Government on the Ethiopian situation made last June by six expert British civil servants: two from the Foreign Office and one each from the Admiralty, Air Ministry, War and Dominions Offices. These experts were chairmanned by Sir John Maffey and the official character of the document was so self-evident that the British Foreign Office was constrained to admit its genuineness, although deprecating...
Challenged again & again to give a frank accounting of the real reasons for "Eden Diplomacy," His Majesty's Government remained quietly snug this week in the position that, after all, they won the election. After all, too, the honest English workman is eager for a job, even if his new work is on a $1,500,000,000 order for ultimate...