Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eden: I agree. My country stands for peace, the whole peace and nothing but peace...
...once worked in England as a traveling salesman, today His Excellency Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, roly-poly Foreign Minister of Soviet Russia. Smarter than "Maxie" they do not come. Knowing perfectly well that every member of the British ruling classes hates him and Stalin, Comrade Litvinoff stage-managed Captain Eden's visit in a way to win reluctant sympathy for Bolshevikland and turn the tables against Nazidom...
...this Bolshevik toast Mr. Eden, who, after all. is not Britain's Foreign Secretary, cautiously replied: "My visit is purely exploratory and not to negotiate. . . . After my return from Moscow, Warsaw and Prague there will be further consultations between the Foreign Secretaries of the United Kingdom, France and Italy at Stresa. ... I raise my glass to the happiness and prosperity of the peoples of this great country, to the President of the All-Union Central Executive Committee [Comrade Kalinin, puppet 'Soviet President'] and, Monsieur Litvinoff, to your very good health...
...Captain Eden's train drew in, the Polish Foreign Office was defining Marshal Pilsudski's policy as one of "being able to take care of ourselves." The gruff old Dictator who refuses to be President and insists on being War Minister believes, really, in nothing but the sword. To him, the spokesman implied, it will be difficult for a suave young Etonian on the make to sell the Stalin-endorsed, Hitler-rebuffed Eastern Locarno Pact...
...Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. *After news of how Hitler out-talked Simon & Eden began to excite world mirth, an irate official of the Wilhelmstrasse declared, "There was no 'Hitler monolog.' The conversations lasted for eight hours and never at any time did the Leader speak uninterruptedly for more than 20 minutes...