Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herr Hitler served notice that in the future all attacks from foreign countries would be brought to the attention of the German people and answered in the German press. He attacked as "apostles of war" Alfred Duff Cooper, Anthony Eden and Winston Churchill, British statesmen, and U. S. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Complained the Führer...
...more familiar to Europeans than Anthony Eden's famed black Homburg is British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's black, rolled umbrella. Last week a newshawk from the London Daily Express sought out the salesman from whom Mr. Chamberlain bought it. With characteristic British clarity, the salesman described it: "It's what one might call a Rolls-Royce of an umbrella, natty but quiet, solid but a light dasher. The sort of umbrella which becomes part...
Last September, Marino Bello, once stepfather of the late Jean Harlow, had asked him to outfit and man his vessel so that Bello and friends-notably Countess Dorothy di Frasso, a nurse named Evelyn Husby, and Richard E. Fulley, a cousin of Anthony Eden-could hunt for gold on Cocos Island, some 300 miles southwest of Costa Rica. Hoffmann signed on a crew consisting of three able-bodied seamen, a few waterfront hangers-on, some fine-looking NYA boys from Long Beach, some men who said they were engineers. In quick succession the Metha Nelson rammed another vessel, caromed...
...meeting was that it was simply a trial balloon, engineered by lesser politicians at the instigation of bigger statesmen, to test how unpopular the Chamberlain appease-the-dictators policy has become. Conspicuously and significantly absent from Caxton Hall were the Conservative but anti-appeasement Big Three-Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Lord Baldwin...
Theatrical Mr. Churchill has long been overtly critical of the Prime Minister. Mr. Eden has been cautiously critical, on occasion abstaining rather than voting against Mr. Chamberlain. Lord Baldwin's opposition has been determined but never in the open. He and other anti-Chamberlain Conservatives realize that an open quarrel would split the party, pave the way for a return of the Laborites to power. They foresee the possibility of keeping Mr. Chamberlain in office but surrounding him with such an anti-Fascist Cabinet of "national unity" that he would no longer be free to appease dictators. Significantly, Chairman...