Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From sources as unimpeachable as those which fostered the anti-De Gaulle stories had come many definite reports that Franklin Roosevelt had won over Winston Churchill to the sacking of General de Gaulle. Only Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden prevented Britain's agreement. Twice, it was said on high authority, Franklin Roosevelt had cabled Winston Churchill, actually suggesting the arrest of General de Gaulle. Churchill refused, but only at Eden's insistence, it was said...
Britain's Labor Party met in annual convention this week. Behind it lay a record of namby-pamby compromises and do-nothing policies. Ahead was a challenge for postwar leadership from the newly glamorized Conservative party of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. No call for a jousting match was Labor's first vote: 2,000,243-to-274,000 against breaking the electoral truce - thereby pledging Labor to support Conservative by-election candidates in all districts won by Conservatives in the last (1935) general election...
Predictable Future. These truths were equally known to Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden; and Churchill and Eden seemed equally as ready as Morrison to face them and act accordingly. The immediate home-front political trend within the United Kingdom, therefore, seemed predictable: Churchill, Eden and the Labor Party will continue their coalition government until the war is won, then Labor will either challenge Churchill's Conservatives for state power, or demand that a Laborite step up to lead a peacetime coalition government of Conservatives and Laborites...
...Government of Winston Churchill, only historians can decide. But last week his body, semiofficially, was laid to rest in the longest, most expensive cinema ever made in Britain. Present to applaud The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at London's Odeon Theatre were Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, many another bigwig...
...good progress so far made against U-boats does not mean that the U-boat danger is over. But to Navy Secretary Frank Knox the news was "very satisfactory." Said British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: "The battle of the U-boats . . . is not yet decided, but at least we feel better about it than we have...