Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole thing is on the knees of the gods," sighed Mr. Eden as he returned to London. Anxious friends thought the old Etonian looked as tired as after his encounters with Hitler and Stalin which put him to bed for a month (TIME, April 1). Just before leaving Paris last week he summed up his conversations with Premier Laval despondently thus: "Oh, we discussed what should be done next, now that what has been done has been done...
...Eden thus referred to the fact that His Majesty's Government, tempted by Adolph Hitler's offer to limit his navy forever to 35% of theirs, not only gave Germany a blank check to violate the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24) but made a further and secret agreement with the Reich. This, made by the British Admiralty, was concealed until last week from the British Foreign Office, a procedure almost unprecedented. It was forced into the open after Premier Laval asked to see Britain's copy of Germany's new Naval building plans and was readily promised them...
...Eden's stops in Paris, before and after he visited Rome last week, Premier Laval first obtained from him Great Britain's promise, then informed him it had been broken. In private M. Laval's words were tart, but in public he made pointed demonstration of his warm personal friendship for the harassed young man who is Britain's Minister Without Portfolio for League of Nations Affairs. Together they dined & wined in a Paris restaurant, later appeared arm in arm in the gallery of the Chamber of Deputies with the explanation that "Captain Eden wishes to observe the Chamber...
Meanwhile strong & healthy Benito Mussolini was having his go at Anthony Eden. The Dictator, no novice in the fine art of getting the jump on public opinion, caused announcements to be made while Captain Eden was his guest which provoked abroad such headlines as BRITISH AGREE TO LET Il DUCE RULE ETHIOPIA and REPORT PACT FOR PARTITION OF ETHIOPIA. Premier Mussolini had just raised his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano from Undersecretary to Minister for Press Relations and the Count proceeded to make good last week. Not until Captain Eden emerged from Italy did the World Press tune change...
That the Dictator's smart entourage had profited from rubbing ideas with Mr. Eden, appeared when Italian Undersecretary for Colonies Alessandro Lessona announced on behalf of Il Duce with a perfectly straight face: "We consider our mission in Ethiopia as sincerely and definitely to abolish slavery and to replace oppression by a harmonious regime of order. We shall give to Ethiopia the opportunity to participate in modern civilization...