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this was a good deal more than most British or French editors cared to swallow and their tart comments made Adolf Hitler angrier still, as the Government of His Britannic Majesty learned with grave concern. King George VI was so worried that harassed Anthony Eden was kept reporting constantly in person at Buckingham Palace...
...British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, since he is now bossing Mr. Eden's every move (see p. 16), to rise in the House of Commons and either publicly swallow what so many Britons could not swallow last week, or take a dominant line with Hitler & Mussolini. These dictators had meanwhile announced that, while Germany and Italy would not withdraw from the London Nonintervention Committee on Spain, they would withdraw their warships from its neutral patrol of Spanish waters. In this move by Rome & Berlin, Prime Minister Chamberlain saw an opening to suggest that British and French ships would...
Foreign Secretary Eden kept interjecting that it would be easy for His Majesty's Government to seem courageous, but only at the expense of the peace of Europe. Therefore the Government's policy, said Mr. Eden, is "peace at almost any price." The Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, took occasion to call Britain's placid Government "swine" and their Conservative supporters at one point in the confused debate took to chanting "Peace! Peace! Peace...
...brought Mr. Eden flying back from Geneva ahead of time in order to give him new instructions...
...general feeling that he would be a good Chancellor of the Exchequer but to the fact that he heads a minute political party, the "Simonite Liberals," whose support the Prime Minister needs in order to maintain the "National" (i.e., coalition) character of his Cabinet. Similarly, Mr. Eden continues at the Foreign Office chiefly because Conservative Party electioneers think the British public still believe he is the shining Galahad of the League of Nations-although on the quiet at Geneva Mr. Eden has become a chronic misser of tricks for the League. Realistic Neville Chamberlain, his friends intimated this week...