Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody knew quite so well as Mr. Eden that the international peace effort, begun when he and British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon called on Adolf Hitler (TIME, April 1), was cracking up last week. The Lord Privy Seal's head swam as his plane took off for London. On approaching Cologne he had to be set down, tottered to a hotel where for two hours he lay on his back, knowing only that he "felt queer...
...that one can always buck up and that "the war was won on the playing fields of Eton" is Eton's gallant Eden. He was up next day and on a train for London, dictating to worried aides. He seemed fit, though tired, when Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon met him at the station. Two days later the Lord Privy Seal's doctors told him he was suffering from serious heart strain, made him cancel all engagements for six weeks. With pert and pretty Mrs. Eden hovering at his bedside, Captain Eden had the rare honor...
...Stalin. So was French Premier Flandin. So was Mussolini. Any virility, any decisiveness which young Captain Eden has injected into British foreign policy oozed away as his heart faltered and Sir John Simon prepared to represent the Empire at Stresa in his usual "great lawyer" fashion, temporizing and indecisive...
Last week the same newspaper owner, Adolph Simon Ochs, arrived in Chattanooga again, to visit his successful Times, for which he had never lost affection throughout the years that he published a far greater newspaper in Manhattan. He was old now-77-and in precarious health. Publisher Ochs joined heartily in a staff meeting in the Chattanooga city room. Then with his brother Col. Milton Ochs and a few other relatives he went to a restaurant for luncheon. Brother Milton asked him what he wanted to eat. He sat dumb, not hearing, not seeing. Few hours later Death stopped...
...which commit her beyond all recall. To use a phrase dear to Grey, "British public opinion would never sanction" such a commitment. Britain is unlikely to do more than express her strong disapproval of recent events in Germany. She will doubtless indulge herself, through the mouths of Sir John Simon and Ramsay MacDonald, in many pious wishes, none of which, because of the armament situation, are possible of solution...