Eden, Anthony

Eden, Anthony, Facing the Dictators (I ndon Cassell, 1962). 

Secretary Morgenthau being needed urgently in Washington, he left by plane. I remained in London to negotiate the Hungarian offer. After I spoke to our Ambassador, John Winant, he decided to see Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary. 

In such circumstances I sometimes imagine myself in the position of the then Foreign Secretary who found himself subject to the withering scorn of Aneurin Bevan who, in the Suez debate in parliament in 1957, felt that the Foreign Secretary was not in command of his material in the same way that his predecessor (Anthony Eden, who was now Prime Minister) would have been. Some of you may remember ... 

Victor Rothwell, Anthony Eden A Political Biography 1931-57 (Manchester University Press, 1992), p. 165. 

Anthony Eden, The Memoirs of Sir Anthony Eden Full Circle (London Cassell, 1960), pp. 368-70. 

Diplomatic circles were quite severe in their recrimination of Italian CW in Ethiopia. The League of Nations initiated an embargo on Italy, excepting oil and steel. Moved by the Ethiopian example, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden spoke about it before the League of Nations in 1936 ... 

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