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...Churchill's car rolled up to the White House,President Eisenhower jogged down the five steps and said, "Hello, Winston." Sir Winston, with his eyes fixed downward on each of the marble stairs, began the ascent to the front door. When an outstretched hand came between the steps and his eyes, he looked up long enough to identify its owner as Mamie Eisenhower, and clasped it cordially. Photographs recorded what seemed...
After lunch at the White House Ike and Sir Winston had had two hours of earnest discussion and were ready for a picture-taking session in the sun-drenched Rose Garden. As they sat in a love seat, flanked by Dulles and Eden, Churchill seemed in good health, compared to his appearance last January at Bermuda. At one point they started some small talk so that the pictures would give an impression of amiable discourse. This is what they said: President: Did you bring your paints? Prime Minister: No, I didn...
...Daily Express: "Whatever gains may have been made in moving closer towards China have been more than compensated by damage to friendship with America." The Economist noted "a most dangerous atmosphere of complacency." Next evening, ignoring such rare voices in their new forest of appeasement, Eden and Sir Winston Churchill boarded a Stratocruiser chartered from BOAC. They took off into stiff head winds, blowing hard from the direction of Washington...
Locarno is a name with golden memories to Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. It is a pretty Swiss town on Lake Maggiore where in the fall of 1925, on the initiative of British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain (half brother of Neville), the Western European Allies of World War I (Britain, Italy, France, Belgium) met with their old enemy, Germany. There Germany, then a republic, joined in collective guarantees of its Versailles Treaty borders with France and Belgium. Britain undertook to fight Germany if Germany attacked either France or Belgium, and to fight France or Belgium if either attacked Germany-thus...
...becomes a factor of might once more," crowed the Berliner Tageblatt. Reassured by German pledges of good behavior, 1) Britain and France withdrew all occupation forces from the Rhineland, which Germany promised solemnly to leave demilitarized; 2) the League of Nations admitted Germany to membership. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill in 1929 called it "the greatest measure of self-preservation yet taken by Europeans." He still thinks well...