Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had planned to spend Christmas at home with their families. Instead, they spent it in Greece trying to end a civil war. The long winter flight from London to Athens held hazards to life & limb. But it was the greater hazard to Britain's power & prestige that spurred Churchill to fly impetuously to Greece...
...Archbishop Damaskinos, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church, no politician but now deeply concerned with the politics of his country's agony. Down one side sat lanky, leonine Premier George Papandreou with members of his Government and leaders of other political groups. At the other end were Churchill, Eden, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Lieut. General Ronald Scobie, U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, French Ambassador Jean Batlen, Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Gregory Popoff. Only the ELAS seats were vacant...
...military decision seemed still remote. London continued to probe anxiously for a political formula that would satisfy all groups. In Parliament, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden restated the Government's case in firm, friendly tones: Britain had gone into Greece with prior U.S. and Russian approval. It sought no economic or strategic advantage for itself, although it was true that Britain had an interest in the Mediterranean. Added Eden: "Our aim is to maintain law & order, to establish a Greek Government broadly representative of all opinion in Greece, including EAM. . . . The first task of the Government will...
Last January the Negus himself opened negotiations with London. Last week Foreign Minister Anthony Eden announced the outcome in the House of Commons: under a new two-year agreement Britain would voluntarily restrict her rights in Ethiopia. Specifically Britain would: 1) remove her garrisons, except from Ogaden province bordering British Somaliland where the tribesmen were still restless; 2) open Ethiopia's airfields (heretofore restricted to British traffic) to all Allied aircraft; 3) give up operations of the Ethiopian section of the 486-mile Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad, the country's only rail link with the sea. Politically...
Regent In? On the pressing problem of a regency for Greece (TIME, Dec. 25) Mr. Eden was equally conciliatory. "We are not against a regency. . . . The first suggestion for a regency was made by our ambassador in Athens. . . ." With Britain's imprimatur, a regency seemed the quickest way to end the fighting...