Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there absorbed the interest of the Allied peoples. But the men in Washington, London and Moscow who direct the master strategy of the United Nations could not let themselves lose perspective. In their long view of World War II, Midway and the Coral Sea loomed no larger than the Eden-Molotov-Roosevelt agreement. They knew that Midway and the Coral Sea—great victories though they were—were essentially defensive actions; the U.S. was still a long way from a real offensive in the Pacific...
...last week Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden quietly told the House of Commons that Great Britain and Russia had signed a 20-year alliance, for war and for peace. It was the first post-war treaty of World War II, and, as such, would write future history. The nature of that history would depend on the present sincerity and the future wisdom of the two nations which signed...
...attendants. A Daily Mirror photographer had gone to this suburb on this morning to get a spring picture of gamboling lambs. The lambs were shorn just before his arrival, so he returned, pictureless and disgruntled, to the station and was astonished to see the meeting of Molotov and Anthony Eden. Molotov smiled broadly as, grey-suited and hatless, he stepped from the train in a faint drizzle...
...Eden took Molotov under a large black umbrella and led the way to nearby motor cars. The Mirror photographer got pictures of the great occasion which were "officially confiscated." Police officials regarded the lamb story with strong suspicion, grilled the photographer and conducted a discreet inquiry of the entire Mirror staff...
...Downing Street and the Foreign Office. He and the other Russians stayed at Chequers [the Prime Minister's official country residence, not used much recently by Winston Churchill] and commuted to London daily by car. Molotov's few extracurricular engagements included a visit to the King with Eden, a fighter-station visit with Churchill while operations were in progress, and a trip around London with Maisky, which was ostensibly to see the blitz damage, but during which Molotov was most interested in seeing the people on the streets, who did not recognize...