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...boldest stroke of British policy since the War is the "Eden Diplomacy" of His Majesty's Government in filling the seas around Italy with warboats and naval aircraft (TIME, Sept. 2 & 30). This cramming of weapons into the Mediterranean had the effect of making the League of Nations loom big with new prestige because at Geneva handsome young Anthony Eden gave the impression that if only a few more chips were knocked off the League's shoulder by Italy then Britain would fight. Last week the Mediterranean was still full of British warboats when the House of Commons...
...grand total is $35,000,000 spent during the past seven months for "special measures" undertaken by Viscount Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper and Air Secretary Viscount Swinton solely because of "Eden Diplomacy." All three Ministers rose in the House to ask still more money for their departments. Meanwhile last week Foreign Secretary Eden replied to the recent Italian note in which Ambassador Dino Grandi argued that the British naval demonstration in the Mediterranean is not justified under any part of the League Covenant and asked His Majesty's Government how they account...
Replied the British Foreign Office last week to Ambassador Dino Grandi: "Mr. Eden has the honor to inform His Excellency that . . . His Majesty's Government . . . do not feel that any useful purpose would be served by prolonging the correspondence on the subject...
This indication that Mr. Eden favors maintaining the tension between Britain and Italy spurred Labor M.P.'s to ask him whether His Majesty's Government are in earnest about sooner or later screwing up the League of Nations to the point of hurling really drastic Sanctions against Italy. In his first formal speech to the House of Commons since he became Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden this week left this point unsettled but he gave most of his time to an ingratiating sales talk for the League of Nations. Exclaiming sorrowfully that "eighteen years after...
...Labor M. P. who climaxed, "So I asked my eldest boy about this homework only this morning and he said, 'Father, the House of Commons should consider this slavery at home instead of the slavery in Ethiopia!'" ¶Raised a question so delicate that Foreign Minister Anthony Eden did not trust himself to reply verbally. The question: Is there any international convention which His Majesty's Government could invoke to stop the Argentine Republic from issuing stamps on which the "British" Falkland Islands are described as "Argentine." Replied careful Mr. Eden in writing: "The answer...