Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arena. Winston Churchill drove into a barrage of rumor that his Conservative Party leadership would soon be taken over by heir-apparent Anthony Eden. Day after his Southampton arrival he turned up in the House of Commons, evoked a round of cheers that interrupted a speech by Food Minister Sir Ben Smith. He smiled and waved apologetically to Smith, who waved back. Next day he held a parley with his "shadow cabinet" of top party colleagues...
Rumor shifted its range. Anthony Eden, went the new word, would carry on as day-to-day Tory boss in Parliament. Winston Churchill would stay on as titular leader and as a background elder counselor. The old battler was not yet ready to be chucked into...
...Friendly Neighbors." Grave, greying Anthony Eden gave Bevin the full backing of the Conservatives. Bevin had more challenges from the 40-odd Labor backbenchers who think he is too harsh on Russia than he got from the Tory opposition. He answered them by wheeling round to face his own side of the House as he said: "You cannot carry out a foreign policy on a very narrow and limited basis, neither can you alter history by a slogan...
...Anthony Eden, handsome, little-publicized wife of Britain's handsome, much-publicized ex-Foreign Secretary, arrived in New York from clothes-short England. One of her immediate objectives was the purchase of nylons. She was finally getting the postwar trip her husband used to promise "during those days when he was having them all." She was scarcely off the boat before she had a new pair of shoes (black suede, high-heeled) and a pink sport dress. Her ultimate objective: Barbados, B.W.I., for "sunshine and rest...
Winston Churchill, who had supported the hated Act, was holidaying in faraway Florida, but Ernie knew his words would carry that far. "I regret he is not in his place," he bawled, with a baleful glare at Anthony Eden in Churchill's seat. "He [Churchill] is the father of all these troubles," added Ernie, skipping clean over five years of warm wartime comradeship. "This nation today is paying a terrible price for the stupid, insane action taken at that time...