Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John's Chestnuts." As the Imperial Airways liner carrying Sir John Simon approached Amsterdam, it coasted down to a landing and aboard stepped the handsome young Oxonian fixer who likes to be called "Mr. Eden...
Captain Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal of His Majesty's Government, had gone over to Paris to fix the French and Italians, if he could. Italy's Vice Foreign Minister Fulvio Suvitch was sent up from Rome to eat luncheon with Capt. Eden at the ornate French Foreign Office. Afterward a formal pretense of Anglo-Franco-Italian solidarity was made, but as one of the Latin statesmen said: "We have decided to let Sir John pull chestnuts out of Herr Hitler's fire, if he can. Later we will see whether or not we like the chestnuts...
...Force for Peace."Everything depended, as Sir John and Capt. Eden reached Berlin, on the psychological reaction of Adolf Hitler, whose works bristle with grudging admiration of the English, to two flesh & blood Englishmen...
Gutturals & Magnetism. Always the basis of Adolf Hitler's strategy is surprise. He let Sir John and Captain Eden go to bed in the Hotel Adlon, sleep, arise and breakfast under the impression that they would lay the basis for negotiation in a quiet morning at the German Foreign Office with Baron von Neurath and without Adolf Hitler. Abruptly at the last minute the morning-coated English and German diplomats were summoned to the Realm-chancellery where they found The Leader lounging in a loose brown jacket behind his great, document-piled desk...
Germany's worst enemies could ask no more than that Captain Anthony Eden, who prefers to be called Mr. Eden, should detach Poles from their ten-year pact with Germany (TIME, Feb. 18 ), or give aid and comfort to Nazidom's avowed and bitter foe, the Soviet Union...