Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked neck-craning Russians, as the big Rolls-Royce from the British embassy rushed down Gorki Street -"Who is that?" It was Prime Minister Winston Churchill on his second wartime visit to Moscow. He had suddenly swooped down on the big Moscow airfield with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and high British military men. Five planes brought the 50 Britons. On hand to meet them were Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, Foreign Vice Commissar Ivan Maisky, high Russian military...
...nothing to aid the Partisans, who were under the command of the Polish Government in Exile. Instead it disarmed Partisans. When Madame Helena Sikorska (widow of Poland's late great Premier and commander in chief) and 15 leading Poles protested, Prime Minister Winston Churchill fumed. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden lectured Premier Mikolajczyk. But R.A.F. flyers from Italy made a 1,750-mile round trip to drop a pathetic driblet of supplies to the besieged. Polish paratroops, idle in Scotland, had to remain idle in Scotland...
...sources in Washington insisted that the Morgenthau plan was not only still alive, but would yet turn out to be the final plan, though modified. According to these sources, his plan had been "bought" by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Quebec, despite heavy objections from Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. After the hubbub has died down, Henry Morgenthau's proposals supposedly will then reappear as the official U.S. proposal...
...swiftly and powerfully in domestic and foreign affairs last week. A momentous social security plan (see below) laid a firm floor under British internal policy. Three days later the Conservative Government turned to foreign affairs. In two important speeches, on successive days, Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden laid the basis for future British policy in Europe. With Parliament as a world rostrum, Anthony Eden announced in effect that Britain had returned to her traditional policy of balance of power in a Europe from which Germany would be eliminated. To the countries of Europe's Atlantic community...
Prime Minister Churchill's speech cleared the ground for Foreign Minister Eden's. Churchill's was a day-long speech, broken by a noon recess. The first part covered the war which Churchill said might not end until next year. The second part was devoted to foreign policy. It was less a typical Churchill speech than a series of important political statements addressed to a number of foreign powers and peoples...