Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision, and with sighs of relief the henchmen agree. This method, adopted by Mussolini from Machiavelli's II Principe, Stalin evolved from his innate Oriental flair for despotism. Charming when he chooses, Joseph Stalin, big-boned and big-mustached, last week asked small-boned, small-mustached Anthony Eden what he thought of Adolf Hitler. Thenceforth they got on famously. Snatches of their conversation as later divulged...
...Eden: Definitely less...
...Eden: The longstanding suspicion here that England is in some way back of every threat to the Soviet Union is false...
Such words as the English managed to insert edgewise the German assimilated without pausing in his stride. At 7:15 p. m. Sir John and Capt. Eden withdrew with negotiation not yet begun. At their Embassy correspondents were given to understand that "the best that can be hoped for" is that Germany will demand as of right an Army as large as the largest (Russia's), an air force as large as the largest (France's) and a navy 30% as large as His Majesty's Government's. "This," prominent Nazis said, "will be sufficient until...
...make things as difficult as possible for Captain Eden to sew up anything against Germany with Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff, an $80,000,000 private credit was abruptly extended by Germany to Russia this week three days before the Great Orator hurled his tirade against Bolshevism...