Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...especially from London to Prague last week, picked up at the Czechoslovak capital a handsome but sadly wilted young Englishman for whom the Empire has had high hopes. Two weeks of high pressure contacts with three dictators - Hitler, Stalin - and Pilsudski-had definitely proved too much for Captain Anthony Eden, George V's Lord Privy Seal...
Nobody knew quite so well as Mr. Eden that the international peace effort, begun when he and British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon called on Adolf Hitler (TIME, April 1), was cracking up last week. The Lord Privy Seal's head swam as his plane took off for London. On approaching Cologne he had to be set down, tottered to a hotel where for two hours he lay on his back, knowing only that he "felt queer...
Heart Strain. A firm believer that one can always buck up and that "the war was won on the playing fields of Eton" is Eton's gallant Eden. He was up next day and on a train for London, dictating to worried aides. He seemed fit, though tired, when Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon met him at the station. Two days later the Lord Privy Seal's doctors told him he was suffering from serious heart strain, made him cancel all engagements for six weeks. With pert and pretty Mrs. Eden hovering at his bedside, Captain Eden...
...Stalin. So was French Premier Flandin. So was Mussolini. Any virility, any decisiveness which young Captain Eden has injected into British foreign policy oozed away as his heart faltered and Sir John Simon prepared to represent the Empire at Stresa in his usual "great lawyer" fashion, temporizing and indecisive...
...George V by the Grace of God King, Emperor of India and Defender of the Faith looks almost exactly like the late Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, and has never forgiven Bolsheviks for butchering his first cousin. Last week, as Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden arrived in Moscow to confer with Joseph Stalin (see p. 19), King George again found means to show his strong feelings. Unimpressed by the fact that Bolshevik leaders were drinking his health at Moscow in champagne, an all-time high for hypocrisy, George V called to Buckingham Palace and privately knighted...