Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlightening and discerning article "The League," [TIME], Oct. 14, which in the main describes England's nimble maneuvering while slipping the noose around Italy's neck. For me it has crystallized into convictions many things which up to now have been only impressions - namely that: 1 ) Mr. Eden is an overly young and ambitious careerist. 2 ) That England, whilst casting pious eyes Heavenward, seeks to have the League pull her own imaginary chestnuts out of the fire. 3) That to duck a "possible" conflict of English-Italian interests in the Red Sea area 30 years from...
Arriving at Geneva, Sir Samuel at once invited Baron Pompeo Aloisi to his hotel. Next day Captain Eden sat in "Flying Sam's" hotel bedroom conference with the Fascist Baron, who in turn was twice closeted with Premier Laval...
...drama in a boarding school for young ladies, one of whom knows a bit too much about the "facts." "Dead End," by Sidney Kingsley of "Men in White" renown, opened recently and has been hailed as a masterful drama of New York life and its social problems. Priestley's "Eden End" is a comedy which is funny, but not quite uproariously so. "The Night of January 16th" is chiefly remarkable in that it allows a jury selected from the audience to settle its little murder mystery. Osgood Perkins" excellent comic work makes "On Stage" better than its manuscript. "Personal Appearance...
...Eden End (by John Boynton Priestley; Milton Shubert, producer). Wrote Author-Playwright Priestley (The Good Companions, Laburnum Grove) in the New York Times three weeks before his lastest play opened in Manhattan: " I should like to see more English plays here, more American plays in London... There will be disappointments, of course... The average New Yorker does not go to the theatre in exactly the same state of mind as the average London citizen. The former has a weakness for plays that tighten and then jangle his nerves. Our London audiences like to be gently moved, to melt into...
...Experts in domestic politics have for some time been anxious to have the [election] safely over before public opinion understands the extent of the failure of the policy pursued at Geneva. . . . The spectacular activities of Anthony Eden, Minister for League Affairs, may impress public opinion for a time, yet the Government know that the impression is unstable unless it is borne out by facts, which are not forthcoming. Therefore haste is imperative before the partial failure of the plan for collective security through Geneva stands revealed...