British soldier, diplomat and politician (1897–1977)
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He waited fifteen years as Winston Churchill's deputy, mastered the Foreign Office three times over, then watched his entire legacy collapse in a single miscalculation about American resolve over Suez.
Robert Anthony Eden became foreign secretary at 38, a rapid rise that marked him as a diplomatic talent. He resigned in protest at Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini's Italy, returned to the post through most of the Second World War, and held it again in the early 1950s while serving as Churchill's deputy for nearly fifteen years. He succeeded Churchill as Conservative leader and prime minister in 1955, winning a general election a month later. In 1956 the United States refused to support the Anglo-French military response to the Suez Crisis — a rupture critics saw as the end of Br…
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He had been sorry to see during the last few weeks the re-emergence of such phrases as "pro-German" and "pro-French". In the modern world such phrases had no meaning whatever.
The essential at the present time is that we should pursue a straight and steady course in support of the League of Nations and of the collective peace system.
We should show ourselves firm in defence of collective peace.
The British public is not anti-German at present but it would be opposed to any country which showed the intention of breaking the peace.
Results bad...whole tone and temper very different to a year ago, rearmed and rearming with the old Prussian spirit very much in evidence. Russia is now the bogey.
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