Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Stassen (with a pink rose corsage) ; Senator Vandenberg, smiling largely at the populace; Canada's Mackenzie King, prudently armed with an umbrella; Bidault of France, bareheaded as always and skipping smartly from car to door way; Lord Halifax, almost unnoticed in the flashy Arabians' wake; Anthony Eden, acknowledging handclaps and squeals with a wave, a smile. Noting them, and many others, the crowd stirred and incessantly asked: "Where are the Russians...
...Anthony Eden, usually no great orator, outdid himself and brought his audience up cheering. When he spoke of peace machinery, he rotated his fists; when he spoke of war, he thrust them rigidly downward. His best (and final) lines: "In the last six terrible years, unnumbered men have died to give humanity another chance...
Molotov never appeared without his flying wedge of guards and his interpreter.* Some of them were inoffensive consultants in his delegation, but they all spelled Ogpu to the onlookers. The contrast with Stettinius and Eden, striding carelessly through the lobbies, was too much for Americans, who often forget that three of their Presidents have been assassinated...
...conference opened this week, Arthur Vandenberg was unquestionably the most important U.S. delegate present, and perhaps the single most important man. Molotov would loom large because of the power he wields by proxy from the Kremlin; Eden would command consideration as the spokesman and heir apparent of Churchill. But by & large the success of a world security organization would stand or fall on the question of U.S. adherence. And the answer to that question lay with Senator Vandenberg...
...smiled when he stepped from a U.S. Army plane at Washington's airport this week. Greeted by Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Mr. Molotov kept on smiling and stared at a point midway between the Secretary of State's chin and navel. Posing later with Stettinius, Anthony Eden, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and Ambassadors Harriman and Gromyko, the Foreign Commissar stared at nothing in particular (see cut}. Mr. Molotov's companions regarded this as encouraging...