Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three foreign ministers had made up their minds to understand each other's mutual problems; 2) good sense: they were prepared to discuss any question that anyone wanted to bring up-though not to battle everything through to a final decision; 3) good tactics: Cordell Hull and Anthony Eden pleased the Russians by putting military problems ahead of everything else...
...Russian relations. The seven-point declaration was said to have been roughed out on the eve of the Quebec talks, accepted by Winston Churchill and later approved by Moscow with four minor changes. The U.S. State Department meanwhile was informed of preparatory talks in London between Anthony Eden and Ambassador Ivan Maisky. As a result, the U.S. delegation at Moscow knew the basic Russian view in advance...
...that Hull of the U.S., Eden of Britain, Molotov of the U.S.S.R. had accomplished could be summed up in one tremendous word-agreement. They-and their chiefs in the Kremlin, in London, in Washington-agreed on the military finish of the war in Europe, on the timing and force of the Anglo-U.S. second front, on battle to the end by the Red Army, on strategy in the Mediterranean...
London heard that the biggest single factor was the initial and complete exchange of military information. From Eden, Hull and their military aides, the Russians got-and believed that they were getting-full information about the resources, intentions and specific plans of the U.S. and Britain. From the Russians, the Anglo-Americans got-and believed that they were getting-equally complete information about the Red Army's capacities and plans...
Said Anthony Eden: "A pretty considerable result...