Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athens, whither he had flown from Moscow, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was given the keys of the capital, shown the Acropolis (unharmed by the Germans). While crowds were parading in his honor, an Army officer, who disliked being tagged a collaborationist, shot and killed a member of the EAM. To Britain's Foreign Secretary this punctuation mark was a reminder that Britain's Greek sphere of influence is far from tranquil. The week before, Athens' tumultuous liberation outburst had been cut short when the leftist EAM and the rightist EDES fought it out during the celebration...
...definitely accounted for at week's end was Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. He was reported to have flown from Moscow to Cairo, but might be at Ankara, Athens, or in Yugoslavia...
Harried Italians had British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's word for it that Italy's African empire was gone. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Lion of Judah, licked his chops in the expectation of regaining Eritrea. In North Africa, the Grand Senussi Seyyid Mohamed Idris expected that Britain would hand him Cyrenaica under some form of protectorate. Disposition of Italian Libya and Tripoli had not yet been suggested...
...made limousines brought 38 other guests. They were bound to Spiridonovka House for a four-hour, 14-course lunch with Stalin. Stalin wore his simplest Marshal's uniform-no decorations. Churchill wore his uniform as honorary colonel of a Sussex regiment-four banks of decorations. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman, British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr were in mufti...
Waiters brought on cold ham in aspic and Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden brought up Poland. His toast: "To Mr. Gusev [Fedor Gusev, Soviet Ambassador to Britain]. One night he shared a flying bomb with the so-called London Poles. All of us hoped this common experience might bring understanding between Mr. Gusev and Mr. Mikolajczyk [Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, of the Polish Government in Exile] which would bode well for the postwar world." All of the 40 guests drank to Gusev...