Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons, toasting each other at home or dancing in their favorite nightclubs, it was a strange celebration in a stranger time. Britain's Prime Minister was spending the last hours of 1941 in a train en route from Ottawa to Washington. Aristocratic Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, was just back from a conference in the Kremlin. The ghost of Neville Chamberlain might well have rubbed its eyes...
...Britain planned to work with the Russians, who have to date struck the most telling blows against the Axis, neither lanky Anthony Eden nor dumpy Joseph Stalin cared to say. But Eden happily told the British press that their talks had been "full, frank and sincere," went on to praise the "magnificent"Red Army which he had seen in action on the Eastern Front...
...same time Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was in Moscow (see p. 27), and the two conferences kept in close touch. This was to be no mere U.S.British meeting of minds. It was, as far as possible, to embrace foes of the Axis all over the world...
Against this obvious strategy the U.$. and its Allies last week met to devise a counter strategy. In Washington, where President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill conferred (see p. 11), in Moscow, where Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden wound up his talks with Premier Joseph Stalin, in Chungking, where the strategists of three nations met (see p. 24), in many a military and naval chart room across the world the same grave decisions were faced: at what points on the worldwide battlefront could the Allies best throw their strength? And how much strength could they throw...
Both sides were engaged in a "war of nerves" last week. With Winston Churchill talking in Washington, Anthony Eden talking in Moscow and Franklin Roosevelt hinting of ominous U.S. Navy movements (see p. 11), the Allies could lay claim to their own major nerve strategies. Responsively, the Rome radio reported that the Tokyo Nichi Nichi declared that "Mr. Antony Eden" would soon move on from Moscow to Chungking...