Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decline of Empire. When Bevin sat down after his first foreign policy statement in the House of Commons, one of his colleagues on the Government bench dryly remarked: "He's picked up all of Eden's principles and dropped nothing but his aspirates." (Commoner Bevin still occasionally drops his aitches; during the war he whipped on his workers with "Give 'itler 'ell!") Different as Ernie Bevin is in manner and method from urbane Anthony Eden, and from all the kid-glove and silk-hat diplomats before him, he has not veered from Eden's course...
...session of Parliament opened last week. The black-robed, bewigged Speaker strode up behind the gold mace and seated himself in his canopied chair. Prime Minister Clement Attlee came in early, lounged comfortably on his front bench, upped his feet on the table before him. Then Anthony Eden, Acting Deputy Leader of the Opposition, immaculate as ever but notably greyer, settled down on his own front bench, with his feet on the same table. Only six feet separated the Labor and Tory soles...
...Eden opened with a firm demand for a four-day debate on the coal nationalization bill. Government leaders made it clear that they were deadly serious about their nationalization program. Listed by Labor for passage this year were...
...sunshine and warmth he would find in Florida. But his absence from Britain-and from the new session of Parliament-had started a rash of newspaper rumors that he was stepping down from the Tory leadership. Already Party quidnuncs were speculating about his heirs. His great & good friend Anthony Eden would deputise for him-with his ex-friend Lord Beaverbrook's open disapproval. And there were others in the field to inherit the Churchill political estate, if it should be probated...
Died. Dr. Thomas Barbour, 61, 6-ft.-6 snake-loving, pre-eminent naturalist and author (A Naturalist at Large, That Vanishing Eden), director since 1927 of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. One of the worst of his many bad moments with reptiles in many lands: his giant boa went AWOL in a Palm Beach-bound train...