Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demands v. Demands. Mounting U.S. and British might, German losses, a Russian demand finally broke this deadlock. In October, just before the Hull-Eden-Molotov Conference in Moscow, Russia suddenly asked that Turkey be brought in. At Moscow, Britain and the U.S. agreed to use their strongest influence; picked Anthony Eden...
...Eden did not like the job. He had tried and failed before to get commitments from the Turks. When, willy-nilly, he met Menemencioglu in Cairo after the Moscow Conference, Eden spoke softly. He sought first to get the use of strategic air and sea bases. Gradually he edged up to the point of Turkey's full entry...
...Gibraltar). He discussed the Pacific War with Major General Richard K. Sutherland, General Douglas MacArthur's chief of staff. He called on King Farouk I of Egypt (confined with a broken femur after an automobile accident), lunched with George II of Greece. Churchill dined with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, conferred with Harold Macmillan, British Minister in North Africa, and held an off-the-record press conference. Through it all he was usually with his old crony and adviser, Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa...
...entered. There, in his sunny private sitting room, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met face to face and spent their first hour together. Stalin had simply walked over on the gravel path from another of the Embassy houses, his living quarters for the meeting. An hour later Churchill and Eden walked in from the British Embassy, directly across the street, and joined the group with Molotov...
...over, as "Roosevelt the President" and "Roosevelt the Man." The party roared on in high good humor, until young Private Hopkins' eyes were boggling out at the flow of liquor and the animated scenes around him: General Marshall and Randolph Churchill talking to Elliott; Molotov excitedly talking with Eden and Cadogan; Hap Arnold laboriously exchanging anecdotes with Voroshilov...