Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subjects have been permitted to know, appeared this week from belated disclosures by the Admiralty, the Foreign Office and indignant representatives at Geneva of the lesser nations of Eastern Europe. In recent weeks British diplomatic and financial pressure induced Turkey, the Little Entente and Greece verbally to promise Mr. Eden at Geneva that their armed aid could be counted on by Britain were she attacked. The little states were asked to pass this on to Benito Mussolini but declined. Thereat Britain conveyed the information to Il Duce anyhow, with the unexpected result that Italy redoubled her threats and Britain agreed...
...Baldwin, an able politician, and Captain Eden, an able diplomat, cleverly left open avenues of retreat from The Deal. They professed that the League of Nations was to decide everything. Three days later at Geneva suave Eden, although the whole London Press was printing columns about the Government's "reversal of policy," had the British crust to say officially: "The policy of His Majesty's Government remains unchanged...
...main objective of Pierre ("Honest Broker") Laval last week was seen to be to halt the relentless march of League of Nations committees toward harsher & harsher Sanctions and to tie a knot in the banner of British idealism which has been unfurled at Geneva by handsome young Captain Anthony Eden. More specifically M. Laval was out to prevent the League from applying the crucial oil Sanction scheduled for last week. Released with the formal imprimatur of Britain and France, The Deal accomplished this initial purpose of abruptly halting for the first time the march toward stiffer Sanctions...
...front of Captain Anthony Eden's hotel at Geneva last week nose-holding Communists tied an oil can to a British flag tagged "Shall we fight for this?" After similarly demonstrating in front of the hotels of other delegations, they poured the oil on the flag, burned the Union Jack...
This week Aristocrats Eden and Hoare, who were vulgarly believed last week to head factions in His Majesty's Government respectively opposed to and favoring peace by dismemberment of Ethiopia, will cooperate shoulder to shoulder with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in an historic airing in the House of Commons of the international stench...