Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Younger minds, many of them witty, are stirring in the British Foreign Office now that Robert Anthony Eden is the new Foreign Secretary. It was possible to hear in Whitehall last week that "our foreign policy is shaping itself to save Musso's face, save the P. M.'s face, save Geneva's face, save the Negus' face and save Laval's two faces." With less complicated cynicism the object at Geneva when the League meets this week was said to be "simplicity itself, merely victory...
When Sir Samuel was forced out of office some few weeks ago, many felt that he had been both the victim of typical Laval manoevres, and the scape-goat of the highly embarrassed British government. His resignation saved the day, although it has been intimated that Hoare and Eden were not on particularly good terms; Eden being fanatically devoted to the League and seeing in Hoare's attempt to sell Ethiopia out virtual imperilling of the League's future. However, Hoare and Eden will not have an opportunity to cross each other's bows, for Eden will remain in charge...
...colored paper hat Colonial Secretary James Henry ("Jim") Thomas crawled about on the floor teaching his granddaughters how to work an elaborate motor race track and showing his grand sons how to fire toy machine guns. The holiday was a headache only for new Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. With a self-appraisal deeper than modesty, Mr. Eden judged himself to be uninformed about the Egyptian Question and, since Egyptian students were daily rioting against the British with increasing violence, took away with him on his country holiday a heavy Foreign Office dossier on Egypt...
...students rioted more & more savagely as Anthony Eden read on & on. Urgent cables from the British High Commissioner in Cairo caused "Tony" annoyance. Here he was a new Foreign Secretary, with his career to make, and the Egyptians would not wait for his orderly Eton mind to absorb the facts as they should be absorbed, slowly. In his annoyance the new Foreign Secretary wrote a reply referring the Egyptians to the speech on Egypt of his predecessor as Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, which so inflamed Egyptian passions that turbulence in Cairo has been rising ever since. The speech contained...
Whatever gems "Tony" cut last week, he has 61 chances this week to cut more, as the 61 foreign representatives accredited to the Court of St. James's call to pay their respects. The Iranian envoy was all primed to hear clever, young Mr. Eden speak Iranian (Farssi), a tongue with which the new Foreign Secretary sometimes amuses pretty ladies at parties...