Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret police (the NKVD, formerly the GPU), release all Poles from concentration camps, freely admit the foreign press to Poland, grant complete political freedom to all Poles (presumably including Russia's avowed enemies), guarantee Allied super vision of Polish elections. Addressing the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden bluntly warned Moscow that the British Government regarded the present Warsaw Poles with extreme distaste, expected something much more decent to emerge...
...Parliament Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden reported: "The Soviet Government has informed the British Ambassador in Moscow . . . that to meet the wishes of the British Government they are taking steps at once to set Mme. Arcizewska free." The elderly wife of Polish Premier Tomasz Arcizewski had been arrested in Poland by the NKVD (Russian secret police). Asked if there were any reasons for her arrest, the Foreign Secretary answered: "I have been given some, but I thought in the light of the happy conclusion to my inquiries it would be better to leave it there...
...Winston Churchill last week described upright, dependable Anthony Eden to the House of Commons. It looked very much as if Churchill were promoting his choice for the next tenant of 10 Downing Street. Once known chiefly for his good looks, impeccable platitudes and his black homburg, Eden has steadily grown in stature by his sane and balanced arguments, his parliamentary and diplomatic steadiness. In the debates on Poland and Greece he was completely at ease before the House. As he spoke, he turned toward all parts of the Chamber, gestured, seldom referred to notes, discussed broad international problems with such...
Said newly elected Sir William Beveridge (Liberal), when challenged by a critic for having voted with the Government: "How could any of us do anything else after Eden's speech...
...Polish Government in London also was not too big to be defied. In Poland, Soviet authorities arrested Mme. Tomasz Arciszewska, wife of the Polish London Prime Minister-or at least such was the report in London. When Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was questioned about it in Parliament, Soviet Ambassador Feodor Gusev rose and left the house...