Word: cliveden
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Three thousand miles away in the U. S., where there had been much talk of a new Britain run for little men by liberal men, there was some surprise at this choice: a Lordship, a Tory, an old Etonian, a man once associated with 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...
...next Gandhi's. As a firm believer in closer U. S.-British trade relations, he resigned from the Cabinet when Liberals split from the Government, over trade policy. As a close friend of Lady Astor's, he was damned as a member of the Cliveden Set during the appeasement crisis, like other members denied that there was such...
Sirs: The European democracies are now paying the price for having followed the counsel of the Appeasement Group-Chamberlain, Bonnet, the Cliveden...
British Broadcasting Corp. announced that on Lord & Lady Aster's estate, Cliveden in Buckinghamshire (headquarters of the much publicized "Cliveden Set"), a 600-bed hospital was being built to accommodate Canadians wounded in the war which all the Cliveden set's appeasement did not prevent...