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...There is one war Britain is ready to fight today at the drop of a German helmet, according to idealistic young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, fresh last week from vacationing at Monte Carlo. Some of his friends keep telling him there would have been no World War if in 1914 his predecessor as Foreign Secretary, the late Sir Edward Grey, had told the Kaiser what Mr. Eden is always telling Der Führer and told him again last week in the House of Commons, namely: "Our arms might and would, if occasion arose, be used in defense of France...
...State Banquet. As always happens, at least one guest too exalted to be nabbed in the act will get away with a gold butter plate worth $500. Next evening the British Foreign Office is dinner host to the King & Queen-biggest night of Foreign Secretary & Mrs. Anthony Eden's lives, although Foreign Undersecretary Viscount Cranborne, a Cecil, and his Viscountess are often house guests of Their Majesties. Next day, May 15, the Envoys of 53 States depart and on this day train accommodations to the Continent cannot possibly be secured by an ordinary visitor...
Significantly meanwhile British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, no friend of Il Duce, went to "vacation" on the French Riviera, although Mr. Eden has only just finished enjoying the long English Christmas and New Year holidays. In London foreign policy was thus in full charge of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, a leading figure last year in "The Deal" which sealed the fate of Haile Selassie (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935 et seq.). Last week such veteran correspondents as the New York Times P. J. Philip scarcely veiled their overwhelming hunch that the French, Italian and German Ambassadors and Sir Robert were sealing...
British Foreign Secretary Captain Anthony Eden went to Monte Carlo for a fortnight's rest...
...gauge of the Realmleader's bigness this year was the recent scramble of statesmen, as soon as they heard that he was going to convene the Reichstag to make speeches of appeasement, conciliation and even flattery. In thus buttering Der Führer, immaculate British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden led (TIME, Jan. 25). He was followed by French Premier Leon Blum, who as a Socialist and a Jew doubly hates the Nazis. And last week the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, inflexible Neville Chamberlain, who is perhaps to become the next Prime Minister after the Coronation in May, told...