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...Geneva-bound train halted at Paris the King of Kings was greeted by one lone French official. That night, outside His Majesty's compartment door, one of Ethiopia's doughtiest generals, Ras Kassa, stood guard in the swaying, jouncing train, with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden asleep a few cars away, first class...
Nonetheless Geneva's rugged, Calvinist and God-fearing citizens who normally ignore celebrities were at the railway station in thousands at 8:30 a. m. to greet the genuine Haile Selassie with roars of "Vive l'Empereur!". Many turned their plump Swiss backs on handsome young "Tony" Eden as he alighted. The Emperor, whisked to the Carlton Park Hotel, went at once into a huddle with his U. S., French and Swiss advisers. In this crucial hour His Majesty had need of all the cunning which carried him originally to the Ethiopian Throne. Close to the astute...
Sting No. 1. The British were blandly asked to provide Haile Selassie with "safe conduct" back to Ethiopia through the backstairs route of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a most embarrassing request which Mr. Coison made not privately to Mr. Eden but by whispering it among Geneva correspondents. His story was that one of the Emperor's sons is already trying to get back through the Sudan, encountering "trouble" from the British...
...personal sympathy posted to No. 18 Cadogan Gardens. Sir Samuel's prompt decision to resign then was, last week in British eyes, a symbol of the qualities of firmness which should make him a great First Lord. In contrast to this, his successor as Foreign Secretary, young Anthony Eden, cut a sorry figure in the House of Commons as his Sanctionist policy crashed and he did not resign. Nowadays there is an almost frightened apology in young "Tony" Eden's eyes as he goes about with the Foreign Office's astute Permanent Undersecretary Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart...
...Britain's Foreign Secretary who has led agitation for League sanctions against Italy is (1 Lord Eustace Percy, 2 Anthony Eden, 3 Sir Samuel Hoare, 4 Sir John Simon, 5 Stanley Baldwin...