Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eden First. Appearing at Geneva for the first time as British Foreign Secretary, handsome young Anthony Eden brought the Empire's vast influence to bear squarely upon Danzig. In an abject climb-down, Senate President Arthur Greiser of this minute State agreed that its Government of native Danzig Nazis will abolish flagrant undemocratic abuses at the demand of Mr. Eden. The League's High Commissioner for Danzig is Irish Sean Lester, and Geneva found it piquant that Mr. Eden strongly backed him up last week, for the Irish Free State was this week the only part of King...
This kind of talk by young statesmen of a type called by the late Rudyard Kipling "flanneled fools" does not go down in Warwick, the constituency of Mr. Eden. He addressed his constituents last week for the first time as Foreign Secretary. "The leadership of Great Britain is no insignificant element," he said, drawing a chorus of "hear, hear!" "I am proud to think it was the United Kingdom Government which gave that lead!" But he was not specific about which of the various leads His Majesty's Government have taken on the Ethiopian Question...
...further lead he will now take as Foreign Secretary, handsome young "Tony" Eden cried: "Let there be no faint hearts, but let there be realism. It is in that spirit that I am going to Geneva. If a collective peace system is to be effective, it must possess two characteristics, strength and elasticity-strength in order that aggression may be effectively discouraged, elasticity in order that some of the causes of war may be removed through the promotion by consent of necessary changes when the time is ripe for them to take place...
...faced policy of Eden strength in urging Sanctions and Hoare elasticity in willingness to compromise with Italy which provoked the recent British Cabinet crisis, forced out Sir Samuel Hoare, and gave millions of Britons hope that Anthony Eden will inaugurate a one-faced policy at the Foreign Office...
...London next day the U. S., British, French and Italians turned the Conference into a painful and frivolous pretense that naval limitation or disarmament can still be striven for by other Great Powers without Japan. Some talk was heard about new Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's idea of inviting to the Conference both Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia. Any such move was soon postponed, but the Conference did agree that its member states are to tell each other early each year what warboats they are going to build that year. The Conference further agreed that Japanese observers left behind...