Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk vacated by Joe Kennedy. To correspondents he admitted that he knew whom the President will shortly appoint as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, but "it won't be me." After these preliminaries Mr. Hopkins saw new British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and got to the point of his visit in three hours spent with Winston Churchill, another half-hour with George VI. Said Personal Envoy Hopkins afterward: "I have no misgivings about the outcome of this war. There is going to be a united and altogether successful effort in the production...
...Their Finest Hour." Great history makes great literature. Seven years after the Spanish Armada an Englishman wrote: This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this...
...Chamberlain and the Cliveden set and that horrid word, appeasement. There were old-fashioned family tie-ups: the only other Foreign Secretary who subsequently became Ambassador to the U. S., Viscount Grey of Fallodon, was Lord Halifax's third cousin, and the man named to succeed him, Anthony Eden, is also his third cousin.* Lord Halifax certainly represented the old Britain. But in London there was a feeling that Lord Halifax would be fine...
Lord Halifax's decision to accept the post was hard. It was a wrench to be sent out of the thick of things, to be made responsible to some young fellow like Tony Eden. But the U. S. post might be one to change the whole future of Britain's history. And he thought back to the day in 1926 when Stanley Baldwin offered him the Viceroyalty of India. At that time he went at once to ask the advice of his aged father, the late 2nd Viscount Halifax. His father took him straightway to church. Together...
...Eden's successor in the portfolio for war, Churchill chose Parliament's famed Tory Chief Whip, Captain David Margesson...