Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General de Gaulle. But implied in Churchill's visit was Britain's plan for a power bloc of western European countries (TIME, Nov. 13), proposed a year ago by South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, energetically pushed since then by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. The London Times had argued: "[The West Bloc] is a necessary complement to the system of security which Soviet Russia ... is building up in eastern Europe. Both for Britain and western Europe [it] represents a departure from tradition. . . . But for both it has become a necessity of the first order...
...fortnight ago, dapper little Marcel Pilet-Golaz, who dresses like Anthony Eden, asked Russia to forget and forgive...
...pattern of power politics crystallized in eastern Europe, another pattern was beginning to take shape in the west. Last week Belgium's Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, arrived in London to talk western power bloc with Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden...
...mission had grown out of Eden's pointed hint in a recent House of Commons speech: "We could . . . use our close friendship with these countries [of western Europe] as a buttress to the strengthened general world structure. ... It gives us perhaps more authority with other great powers if we speak for the Commonwealth and for our near neighbors in western Europe" (TIME, Oct. 9). In other words, with the nations of the British Commonwealth and France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, perhaps Norway and Denmark, girded round her, Britain would be a formidable Continental power...
Spaak, as the representative of a fully liberated country, was the first to come to London. Next, probably, would be Luxembourg's astute Foreign Minister, Joseph Bech. Soon Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden would pay a ceremonial call on General Charles de Gaulle in Paris. Later, when their countries had been freed, the plenipotentiaries of the other Atlantic states would come to London...