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Wishing to take a vacation incognito, Britain's popular ex-Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disguised himself, passed through London's thronged Victoria Station, entrained for the Riviera (see p. 21) unrecognized. His disguise: a brown felt hat instead of curled-brim black Homburg...
...night after Anthony Eden resigned, Britons who gave the Communist salute led a crowd which whirled into the great octagonal Central Hall of the House of Commons, crying out against the Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 28). This week Mr. Eden, had he cared to make difficulties for the Prime Minister who forced his resignation, could easily have provoked a monster demonstration. Instead "Tony" Eden, a British aristocrat who thinks first of being true to his class, kept away from his seat in the House of Commons, remained with his sister the Countess of Warwick at her villa on the French...
...superb timer that he is, he will wait, it may be a month, it may be two before he again moves. Meanwhile, Italy will debate on whether Germany or England offers the best security and probably lean toward the latter. With Chamberlain's policy of dictator-bargaining ruined, Eden will be redeemed and Italy's favor courted. Today, the fifteenth of March, both England and France and Italy are trembling with doubt and fear, and whatever dire prophecies they make, these former allies must realize that right still will be might...
...count myself as firm a friend of France as my right honorable friend [Eden] !" cried Mr. Chamberlain. "I have always taken the view that the question of formal recognition of the Italian position in Ethiopia was one that could only morally be justified if it was found to be a factor-an essential factor-in general appeasement. . . . The peace of Europe must depend upon the attitude of four major powers-Germany, Italy, France and ourselves. ... If we can bring these four nations into friendly discussion and into the settlement of their differences we shall have saved the peace of Europe...
...hours after handsome Anthony Eden resigned as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Glasgow haberdashers marked down the Eden-style black Homburg from ?1 to four shillings. In London's West End, however, it still held its own. "It has too much character," said one Mayfair hatter, "to be blown off by a political breeze...