Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geneva souvenirs of League Statesmen, is the Italian Government's official white paper on Ethiopian customs (TIME, Sept. 16). Copies reaching the U. S. last week satisfied curiosity as to what strong-stomached, peasant-born French Premier Pierre Laval was looking at when he remarked to Captain Eden, with a shrug, "Nice, aren't they...
...With British Minister for League of Nations Affairs Captain Anthony Eden cracking the whip, Geneva statesmen rushed onto paper a veritable literature of proposed sanctions and a wealth of erudite interpretations of the Covenant. These boiled down to the unprecedented conclusion, solemnly voiced in various ways, that no treaty the terms of which are in conflict with the Covenant can be regarded by League States as valid against...
...Personal animosity toward Dictator Mussolini appeared to spring at Geneva last week so clearly from Captain Eden that he began to get daily threats in impassioned Latin scrawls. (Sample: "Pig! Somebody ought to stick you!") Ultimately Scotland Yard operatives and Swiss detectives flung a veritable phalanx around the British Minister. He got safely away to London when Geneva finally shut up shop last week, League statesmen dispersing to the capitals in which their proposed sanctions are being considered...
...Geneva last week the Clark Gable of the League, romantic in his open-throated tennis shirt and Eton blazer at tea time, remained Captain Anthony Eden. This handsome young British Minister for League of Nations Affairs has been expertly cast by His Majesty's Government to play a role of popular idealism, Empire unselfishness and British solicitude for the Negro underdog. Last week "Mr. Eden," as the League's spruce Captain insists on being called, kept the Committee of Thirteen, the Committee of Six and all the other League organs created to deal with Italy & Ethiopia busy heading...
David Manners puts a great deal of subtlety and skill into his portrayal of Eden Whiteoaks, the poet; and Kay Johnson as the girl who discovers his poems for a publishing house and fails in love on meeting him is likewise effective...