Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Squeeze. The curious fact is that Turkey did the Allies a great service in the early war years by staying neutral. A German invasion of Turkey, when Britain was barely able to hold Egypt and Suez, might have been disastrous. Last week, when Anthony Eden (who reportedly dislikes Menemencioglu) complained that German warships, disguised as merchantmen, had been allowed to cruise through Turkey's Dardanelles, Ankara had to give in. Numan Menemencioglu took the fall, handed over his portfolio to Premier Sükrü Saracoglu. But nobody thought brilliant Mr. Menemencioglu was out for a very long count...
Beyond that, Churchill would not go while the war was still to be won. But his Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, added some details...
...speech as lofty as Churchill's was plain, Eden sought to exorcise some of the forces bedeviling Allied diplomacy. International suspicion, said he, "has unhappily always played its part in Anglo-Russian relations, and it has a habit of accumulating suspicions on their side which produce countersuspicions on ours and, before we know where we are, a mountain of suspicion is the result...
...nations, big or small, Eden stated what he hoped they would accept as the mainspring of British foreign policy: "We want... to try to maintain a standard of honesty, of fair dealing, of international good faith. . . . Human intercourse is based on good faith, on keeping of promises, on honoring the pledged word between...
Nothing like this had happened before in a German prison for Allied airmen. Geneva sent the shocking news to London. Last week Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden gave the House of Commons the German story. He was not satisfied with the story, nor was anybody else...