Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Secretary of State of the U.S. and the Foreign Minister of Great Britain are about to do business with Moscow. Cordell Hull, an honest, sincere and limited man from Tennessee, and Anthony Eden, a middle-class patrician from Britain, will go into conference with Viacheslav Molotov, a Russian revolutionary and politician who speaks for and only by permission of the toughest ruler in the modern world...
...wished to dissuade a crocodile from eating his tenth explorer would slap it on the back and say, 'Be a crocodile.' For we have no notion of a perfect crocodile; no allegory of a whale expelled from his Whaley Eden...
Clearly the value of Lend-Lease to Russia, the future of AMG and the shape and texture of postwar Germany would have places on the Moscow agenda. Said Eden in the House of Commons: "We must be frank with one another. . . . There can be no cooperation if it is not based on confidence. . . . Confidence cannot be created by one side alone." Urbanely he intimated that the Russians were not the easiest people in the world to deal with...
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House that he sought "the closest collaboration with the Soviet Government"; that Allied Military Government "is not intended to be permanent"; that AMG's work should be handed over to democratic forces as soon as possible...
...Dominion Affairs, a position he held from 1940 to 1942, when he became Lord Privy Seal. Cranborne lives at Cranborne, where he raises roses rare and magnificent, plays a smacking croquet game called "golf," collects Low cartoons (see p. 38), talks good British politics. He resigned with Anthony Eden over Britain's appeasement of Italy in 1938, is impersonally competent...