Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced that Sir Robert Vansittart would retire as his Chief Diplomatic Adviser June 25, when he reaches the age of 60. Thus ended the public career of the man who, more than any other man, shaped British foreign policy during the fateful decade...
...meeting with Hitler in 1936 made Sir Robert question appeasement, and for a while in 1937 and 1938, when Anthony Eden was Foreign Secretary, it looked as though British policy were stiffening to the point of making a stand somewhere...
Between Galahad Eden and Appeaser Neville Chamberlain was Sir Robert, trying on the one hand to come to terms with Germany, on the other to set a limit to British retreat. He came into conflict with both Eden and the appeasers, and at the end of 1937 he lost his job as Permanent Under Secretary. The title of Diplomatic Adviser meant exactly the opposite...
French public opinion concerning the Vichy-Nazi collaboration remained hidden by censorship. In the House of Commons last week Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden appealed to the French people over the heads of Vichy, gave them the somewhat belated warning that if Vichy assisted in Germany's war, Britain-would feel free to attack the Unoccupied as well as the Occupied Zone. But it seemed likely that Frenchmen in general would have been disgusted, if not downright nauseated, by any large appeal, British or French...
...hallucination-disappearance yarn came from Berlin, Minister Alfred Duff Cooper and his men called in the London newspapermen on Monday night and. dancing with excitement, broke this war's, or any other war's, most incredible tale of desertion. It was as if Harry Hopkins or Anthony Eden had suddenly flown to Germany, but the in credible arrival was augustly confirmed from Prime Minister Churchill's office at No. 10 Downing Street. No. 3 Nazi Hess had indeed spectacularly gone over the hill...