Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same day, Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that Britain does not recognize any territorial changes which have taken place in Poland since the war began, does not intend to recognize any unless they are accomplished with the free consent of the parties concerned. In effect, Eden once more underwrote the difficult position of the Polish Government in Exile (TIME...
...London last week the people were still angry over the bombs in the Spanish oranges (TIME, Jan. 24), but the official reaction was not frightening. Anthony Eden assured the House of Commons that he had personally told Spain's Ambassador, the Duke of Alba, of the serious effect which continuing unneutral assistance to the enemy would have on Anglo-Spanish relations, now and later. Eden said that Sir Samuel Hoare in Madrid had received instructions to tell Franco the same thing: But Eden rejected a request for stronger action, saying that oral representation has worked pretty well-in some...
...trained ear of the British Foreign Office, the charge was a challenge. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden set to work to make sure that hotheaded Poles gave a soft answer to Red wrath. In his endeavor he had the aid of reasonable, democratic Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and of a Polish Socialist, Deputy Premier Jan Kwapinski. With other moderates in the Polish Cabinet, these men labored long last week to produce an answer which-so they thought-would mend the worst fracture in the United Nations' frame. Five times the Cabinet met. Five times Mikolajczyk or Foreign Minister Tadeusz Romer...
...week's end Eden had every reason to believe that he had succeeded: the Poles announced that they were ready to resume relations with Moscow, discuss all outstanding questions-if Russia would let the U.S. and Britain sit in, and if these powers would share responsibility for the final settlement...
...members, having heard Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden make a report that read like a compendium of communiques from Teheran and Cairo, had turned to an exploration of future British policy. What startled the incredulous Nancy was the way Tories, Independents, Laborites agreed that Britain must: 1) revive its faith in the Commonwealth, take steps to strengthen and streamline it; 2) extend the Commonwealth to the little democracies of Western Europe, lend every aid to rebuild France so that she "can have an honored place in the group...