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...93rd day of war against Japan, the British lion roared at the Japanese as he had never roared against Germany in 920 days of war. What angered him was a statement read slowly and quietly in the House of Commons by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden...
...Anthony Eden got his facts from trustworthy eyewitnesses who had escaped from Hong Kong around Feb. 1. Confirmation came immediately from a Miss Phyllis Harrop, first British woman to escape. An anti-vice crusader attached to the Foreign Office, she told reporters in Chungking last week: "My houseboy was killed-bayoneted in the stomach. My [woman servant] was raped by three or four Japanese soldiers. . . . An Englishwoman I knew was first slashed in the face with a soldier's belt, then raped...
...Britain's leaders that Winant had been sent; it was to them that he plugged away at his theme of a democratic post-war world. He had long talks with Winston Churchill; met Anthony Eden several times a week; consulted labor leader Ernest Bevin; became fast friends with such Britons as Author-Professor Harold J. Laski, Sir Stafford Cripps, Press Lords Camrose and Kemsley, the WVS's Dowager Marchioness of Reading, one of England's most influential women...
Other members of the War Cabinet: Prime Minister Churchill, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, Lord President of the Council Sir John Anderson (a high Tory with whom Sir Stafford Cripps may be expected to tangle), Laborite Clement Attlee, upped from Lord Privy Seal to Deputy Prime Minister & Dominions Secretary...
Parliament greeted the pact with solemn rejoicing. In the House of Lords Viscount Cecil of Chelwood called it an "extremely vivid contrast to the German Government's 'New Order.' " Only a few of the Lords had reservations about Ethiopia's new freedom. Though Anthony Eden had assured the House of Commons that Haile Selassie had promised to abolish slavery just as soon as possible, some of their Lordships wanted to know why the pact was signed before the emancipation was a fact...