Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diplomatic Front. To the White House went British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, for the culmination of the extraordinarily cautious visit begun three weeks ago. For two hours and 15 minutes Franklin Roosevelt and Anthony Eden talked high diplomacy. They were flanked by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Under Secretary Sumner Welles, Ambassador John G. Winant, British Ambassador Viscount Halifax...
Americans at Bat. Eden's pointed reference to China as a full partner did not quiet the fears aroused in the Far East. For India, there was as usual little comfort in anything that Winston Churchill said. Along with the rest of the world, the peoples in Britain's colonies had every right to read Mr. Churchill's global declaration in context with his earlier statement, for home consumption, that Britain intends to keep and rule her own colonies in her own way, after the war (TIME, March 29). The tone of the Prime Minister...
...Manhattan went unobtrusively elegant British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, from private meetings with Congressmen and State Department bigwigs, a last-minute call on Eleanor Roosevelt. He talked off-the-record to Manhattan newsmen, committed himself on the Brooklyn Dodgers ("A great ball team"), visited the Herald Tribune's Ogden Reids. After a 'round-the-city sightseeing tour (including Coney Island), he was off to Washington again with Lord Halifax...
...Eden is probably finding this out to his surprise, as he sees reactions to reportedly cautious British outlines of peacetime government, and his speech on Friday at Annapolis may show a change of emphasis to account for what neither he nor the Prime Minister expected...
England, represented especially by Churchill and Eden, is genuinely anxious for a strong world government, with the United States closely integrated. But their misjudged fear of isolationist sentiment here has forced the halfway proposals so far made he feels. That sentiment, of course, is still unfortunately strong both in the country at large and in Congress, but recent measures such as the Hatch and Gillette bills show a strong will for decisive steps to be taken...