Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eden Out? Anthony Eden's time as Foreign Secretary seems to be about up. The prime reason has to do with a notable, very recent change in Britain's attitude toward its allies and the world. Britons, long willing to suffer almost anything in silence rather than trouble Allied relations, are fed up with national masochism. They are in a mood to stand up for themselves to Russia, the U.S., anybody who tramples on British patience...
...weakling, long an exponent of the strong line toward Britain's diplomatic enemies and rivals, Anthony Eden nevertheless personifies the soft word rather than the tough approach. Last week, individually and in their press, Britons displayed their new mood: they barked angrily at Cordell Hull (for blaming London for recent news leaks and political censorship); barked as sharply at Soviet Russia (for its bad-mannered handling of the Italian question...
...come back fast in the P.M.'s esteem, is now very close to Mr. Churchill. It is no secret that Churchill. Beaverbrook and pervasive, ambitious Minister of Information Brendan Bracken are three big bugs-in-a-rug at No. 10 Downing Street. Too often to suit him, Eden has felt lately that high policy came down to him from this trio, and particularly from Beaverbrook. Last week some London correspondents, pondering Beaverbrook's comeback, guessed that he may be headed for the War Cabinet...
...Eden & Twin. London correspondents have been hearing for weeks that Mr. Churchill's Foreign Secretary and House of Commons Leader, Anthony Eden, has too much to do. Last week some of the correspondents reported that Eden may give up one job or the other...
...surprisingly, he surrenders the all-important Foreign Ministry, gossips' candidates for his successor are Permanent Foreign Under Secretary Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with muggin') and Robert Arthur James Cecil, Viscount Cran-borne, Dominions Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords. Stooped, willowy, witty Lord Cranborne and Eden were known as the "Foreign Office Twins" when they worked together in the governments of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Their views were so close together that when Eden quit as Foreign Secretary in 1938 in protest against appeasement, Lord Cranborne, his Under Secretary, followed with outspoken approval. Nothing since...