Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forced Prime Minister Baldwin to admit, grudgingly but imperturbably, that he may have bumbled when he created for his swank protege Captain Anthony Eden the office of Minister for League of Nations Affairs at ?3,000 ($15,000) per year alongside Sir Samuel Hoare who is the regular Foreign Secretary at the regular...
...Ridiculed the Prime Minister's other protege Lord Eustace Percy, who is an unattached Minister Without Portfolio, also at ?3,000 per year, for resoundingly back-slapping Protege Eden. "Captain Eden," declared Lord Eustace Percy, "is the greatest diplomatic genius this country has produced for a generation...
...English statesman could scarcely have spoken more persuasively to Englishmen. As tired Captain Eden returned to London it was clear that he had settled nothing, proved nothing. "I am going to report to my colleagues," said he morosely before facing the House of Commons. Mussolini, it was understood in Whitehall, proposes that, since Ethiopia's admission to the League of Nations was conditional on her abolishing slavery, and since slavery still flourishes in Ethiopia, the thing to do is for the Great Powers to expel Ethiopia from the League and hand her over to Italy which would guarantee to free...
While this slick out was pondered by His Majesty's Government, an amazing indiscretion popped loose in London. From Mr. Eden or some member of his immediate entourage Universal Service claimed to have scooped the actual words of Il Duce to Britain's envoy at their private conference in the Palazzo Venezia...
...were Reformed Jews, in the vanguard of the movement in the U. S. They met in Pittsburgh, drew up a "Platform" as a guide for Reformed Judaism, put their views on Zionism in paragraph No. 5. Further, their Platform rejected old Jewish ideas of bodily resurrection, of Gehenna and Eden. Mosaic and rabbinical laws of diet, priestly purity and dress the Reformed rabbis found incompatible with modern life. They staked their faith on "the indwelling of God in man," declared that modern scientific discoveries are not antagonistic with Jewish doctrine, saluted Christianity and Islam as daughter religions of Judaism...