Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London diplomatic circles reported last week that military successes in Russia and North Africa appeared to have "set the stage" for an early meeting between President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill or Anthony Eden. Roosevelt and Churchill have conferred in person three times during World War II: on Aug. 14, 1941, aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in Argentia Bay, Newfoundland, they signed the Atlantic Charter; in the latter part of December 1941, at the White House, they organized the U.S.-G.B. War Council; in June 1942 they planned the North African campaign...
...world participation in his book The Problems of a Lasting Peace, jointly written with Diplomat Hugh Gibson (TIME, July 6). Last week, in his speech before the Chicago Executives Club, he was substantially in agreement with the broad world program of men like Sumner Welles, Henry Wallace, Anthony Eden...
There was no oratory in the few simple words he said. There was no need for it. Parliament had just heard Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden read a joint declaration by the U.S., Britain and nine other nations deploring and protesting the "bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination" of the millions of Jews trapped behind the walls of Hitler's Europe. Eden had said: "Members can be sure that we will do whatever we can to alleviate these horrors, but at this stage it must inevitably be slight...
Britain's House of Commons took a poor view of the situation. M.P.s cheered at the announcement that Britain did not consider herself bound by the Darlan-Eisenhower agreements. Dourly, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden explained that Darlan's assumption of power, "as far as I know . . . was a unilateral inspiration of Admiral Darlan himself...
...some of the loneliest men on earth. With a 16-mm. projector and a few reels of antediluvian film, Jimmy borrowed a jeep (which now is practically his personal property), started on a series of one-night stands at the various bases. The setup was as simple as Eden. Jimmy would drive up, find a space whacked out of the jungle, set up his screen and put on his show. One of the early screenings was interrupted three times by Japanese bombers. Wrote Jimmy: "We would all dive for the slit trenches until the Nips passed and then come...