Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the table from Baron Aloisi were immaculate Capt. Anthony Eden, white hope of the British Foreign Office, and swart Pierre Laval, Foreign Minister of France. Britain's Lord Privy Seal, normally the most suave of diplomats, had just recovered from a heart attack. Word had come from London that important Cabinet changes were imminent (see p. 19). With luck, within a fortnight, Captain Eden might find himself Foreign Minister of Great Britain. Minister Laval had scarcely had a good night's sleep for a month. The clatter of railway wheels rang ceaselessly in his ears...
Because the three statesmen had been through so many diplomatic campaigns together, Messrs. Eden and Laval wasted few words. Over the consomme, they talked hard & fast. Italy was determined to test her new army by a military campaign in Abyssinia. In normal times London and Paris would have no objection. As a matter of fact it would benefit both France and Britain to have Italy, instead of Japan, gain the upper hand in Africa's last independent empire. But these were not normal times. Abyssinia has been a member of the League of Nations in good standing since...
...squabble of Italy against the entire League and probably force Italy to withdraw from the League. With the Danubian conference in the offing and the question of Austria's independence pressing hard behind. Britain and France could not afford to lose Italy from the League. Italy. Capt. Eden and Minister Laval chorused, must accept arbitration. Baron Aloisi got up from the table to telephone his boss in Rome...
...British Liberals think so. "Steps" might be a distasteful word to Il Duce. Distasteful steps were promptly taken. Sir Eric Drummond, onetime Secretary General of the League of Nations, now Ambassador to Rome, was suddenly called back to London for a conference with the Cabinet. Hard-working Capt. Anthony Eden, only just recovered from a heart attack, was appointed British agent for a suddenly called Franco-British-Italian conference at Geneva to try to avert something almost as embarrassing as a war-formal action by the League of Nations Council, meeting this week in its 86th session. Since 1923 Abyssinia...
...peril, Trelia's love suddenly awakens, matures overnight. With a woman's unerring instinct, she liquidates the little old man. The State's case collapses, Johnny is set free. Trelia comes to live with him. For a week he is as happy as a Buchmanite in Eden. Then Trelia relapses into feyness, goes back to her lake. But Johnny has his memories...