Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sanctions- With Captain Eden as ringmaster, Nov. 18 was set as the date on which all League States will apply such of the proposed sanctions against Italy as their governments have ratified by that time. Most of the sanctions seemed likely to be applied by most League States. To the chagrin of loyal Leaguophiles, famed "Proposal No. 5," the only active Proposal, under which League States would assist each other to compensate for losses incurred through application of sanctions, had not been ratified last week by Britain. In a love feast of honeyed speeches the 52 nations which voted last...
...Italy is making roads through Ethiopia with the avowed intention of colonizing the country. The Danakils are doing their utmost to stop the process by killing the road makers and their guards. The League of Nations is being strongly urged by Mr. Eden to assist the Danakils in killing the Italians with the object of stopping the road making and forcing Italy to retire discomfited, leaving the primitive tribesmen triumphant over European civilization...
...Wales was forced to change its name to The Prince of Piedmont; the Hôtel d'Angleterre draped a Fascist banner over its name; gregarious Miss Babington removed from her window the provocative sign "English Teas"; and police averted the destruction by an enraged mob of the Eden Hotel-although aristocratic young Captain Eden is emphatically "not in trade...
Since the big League drum of sanctions was being beaten against Italy by British Captain Anthony Eden next door, the Mandates Commission, in a panic lest League prestige be weakened if Dr. Ito's postulates received publicity, hushed everything up last week by agreeing not to discuss them. Also hushed was evidence reaching the Commission that Japan is fortifying her mandated islands in violation of explicit mandate statutes...
...Eden Hats." Seasoned London correspondents heard last week in Conservative circles that "of course Eden must go," the intimation being that Minister for League of Nations Affairs Anthony Eden will be paid for his service at Geneva in drumming up votes by promoting him to "one of the five ministries which carry the rank and pay of a full Secretary of State." Eden was being mentioned as Secretary of State for Dominions, with hopes voiced that if any Briton can charm Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera into complacence, charming Captain Eden can. Though all this seemed most premature...