Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Definitely convalescent last week was the Lord Privy Seal, spruce young Captain Anthony Eden, who was put to bed with "heart strain" after his round of diplomatic fencing bouts with Hitler, Stalin and Pilsudski (TIME, April 1 et seq.). Chirped a glib, anonymous political correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "They refer to 'heart strain'. . . . The actual trouble, I understand, is thrombosis" [clogging of an artery...
...TIME, April 8, I read to my surprise "Little Anthony Eden was a healthily snobbish Eton schoolboy in tails, starched collar and high hat every day of the week...
Signor Mussolini, impatient and contemptuous of the "exploratory voyages" of Sir John and Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden (TIME, April 1 et seq.), sought to get everyone down to brass tacks. Observed Italian newsorgans which are under his thumb: "What have these explorations done except to leave Italy under the necessity of maintaining 600,000 men in arms? . . . When is procrastination to give place to action...
Leaving her husband in bed from heart strain (TIME, April 15), Mrs. Anthony Eden, wife of Britain's Lord Privy Seal, flew up from Leeds with a party of local bigwigs to open an airline to Heston. Flustered by such a great and pretty passenger, the plane's pilot landed too fast at Heston Airdrome, skidded on through a fence, deposited the ceremonial party in a pasture...
...Paris this was interpreted as British reluctance to take sides for or against Nazidom-even after the "clarifying talks" of Hitler with Sir John and Captain Eden. It was. Frenchmen angrily declared, just one more case of perfidious Albion's persistence in trying to maintain in Europe a "balance of power'' with herself as the fulcrum...