“To knock Nasser off his perch.”
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Anthony Eden
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon was a British statesman and military officer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1955 until his resignation in 1957.
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politics · British Prime Minister (1897–1977) · politician · diplomat · aristocrat · head of government · foreign minister · also Anthony Eden, Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, Sir Anthony Eden, Lord Avon, Earl of Avon, Eden
Born 12 June 1897 · Died 14 January 1977 · Q128995
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2026· 2 entries
Harper's Magazine: Anthony Eden
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1986· 1 entry
Eden's official biographer, Robert Rhodes James, re-evaluated sympathetically Eden's stance over Suez and in 1990, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, James asked: "Who can now claim that Eden was wrong
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1977· 7 entries
Died 1977-01-14.
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“Wolfe has said: "War is an option of difficulties.”
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“Mr. Greenwood, when moving the Amendment yesterday, told us that the war would shake many strongly held views. I fear that this war will do very much more than that. The war will bring about changes which may be fundamental and revolutionary in the economic and social life of this country. On that we are all agreed.”
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“The hon. Gentleman the Member for Limehouse said that the chief problems of the Conference were security and disarmament. I would call them the French demand for security and the German demand for equality.”
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“Corruption never has been compulsory”
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“It is the measure of the unknown that makes rearmament inevitable, and I can earnestly tell the House that it has been, in this present dispute, our own disarmament to the edge of risk—fortunately not beyond—which has produced an element of inevitable uncertainty.”
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“There can be only one peace which will be acceptable to the people of this country. That is a peace which takes every precaution in our power to see to it that neither Germany nor Japan has any avoidable opportunity of starting this business again.”
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1976· 1 entry
Eden commented that he "would not claim she was pro-Suez"
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1975· 1 entry
Although she later went out of her way to establish relations with Lord Avon, and later, his widow
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1968· 1 entry
Bought Alvediston Manor in Wiltshire, where he lived until his death on 14 January 1977
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1967· 4 entries
“Peace at any price has never averted war. We must not repeat the mistakes of the pre-war years, by behaving as though the enemies of peace and order are armed with only good intentions.”
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And probably no Yom Kippur War in 1973 also"
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The year of the Arab–Israeli Six-Day War, when he wrote that "we had sown the wind of bitterness and we were to reap the whirlwind of revenge and rebellion"
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“I am still unrepentant about Suez. People never look at what would have happened if we had done nothing. There is a parallel with the 1930s. If you allow people to break agreements with impunity, the appetite grows to feed on such things. I don”
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1966· 1 entry
Called on the United States to halt its bombing of North Vietnam to concentrate on developing a peace plan "that might conceivably be acceptable to Hanoi
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1963· 1 entry
Lord Avon initially favoured Hailsham for the Conservative leadership but then supported Douglas-Home as a compromise candidate
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1961· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the House of Lords (1961–1977).
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Bred a herd of 60 Hereford cattle (one of whom was called "Churchill") until a further decline in his health forced him to sell them in 1975
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1960· 1 entry
And Sir Anthony Eden Way, Warwick, built in the 2000s, as well as the Eden Arms Hotel in Eden's hometown of Rushyford, are named in his honour
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1957· 1 entry
From Air Chief Marshal Sir William Dickson during an air flight (and, according to Colville, after several whiskies and soda)
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1956· 6 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Caen University (1956).
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The Suez Canal was of vital importance since over two-thirds of the oil supplies of Western Europe (60 million tons annually) passed through it on 15,000 ships a year, one-third of them British; three-quarters of all Can
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When the United States refused to support the Anglo-French military response to the Suez Crisis, which critics across party lines regarded as a historic setback for British foreign policy, signalling the end of British i
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With a temperature reaching 41 °C (106 °F)
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Have usually been described as "imperialistic", the main motivation was economic
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The Arab countries threw away a chance to make peace with Israel on her existing borders
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1955· 4 entries
Awarded Wateler Peace Prize (1955).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1955–1957).
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Career landmark: member of the 41st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1955–1957).
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And a month later won a general election
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1954· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Garter (1954).
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Preferred, out of a sense of professionalism, to have interpreters translate at formal meetings
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1951· 4 entries
Career landmark: member of the 40th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1951–1955).
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The Conservatives returned to office and Eden became Foreign Secretary for a third time
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Career landmark: Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1951–1955).
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1951–1955).
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1950· 2 entries
Eden and Beatrice were finally divorced, and in 1952, he married Churchill's niece Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, a nominal Roman Catholic who was fiercely criticised by the Catholic writer Evelyn Waugh for marrying a divor
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Career landmark: member of the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1950–1951).
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1947· 2 entries
Dick Crossman called Eden "that peculiarly British type, the idealist without conviction"
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Wrote an introduction to her novel The Semi-Attached Couple (1860)
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1945· 6 entries
Career landmark: Leader of the House of Commons (1945–1945).
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Career landmark: Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945–1945).
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Career landmark: member of the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1945–1950).
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His main concern was to avoid being seen as "an appeaser", such as over the Soviet reluctance to accept a democratic Poland in October 1944
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Was mentioned by Halvdan Koht among seven candidates who were qualified for the Nobel Peace Prize
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Career landmark: Deputy Leader of the Opposition (1945–1951).
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1944· 1 entry
Eden went to Moscow to negotiate with the Soviet Union at the Tolstoy Conference
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1943· 1 entry
With the revelation of the Katyn massacre, Eden refused to help the Polish government-in-exile
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1942· 3 entries
(which would have been a very unusual appointment as Eden was a civilian; General Harold Alexander would be appointed), Viceroy of India in 1943 (General Archibald Wavell was appointed to this job) or Secretary-General o
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Eden was given the additional role of Leader of the House of Commons
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Career landmark: Leader of the House of Commons (1942–1945).
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1941· 1 entry
“4 Jan 1941, after Operation Compass and the Italian surrender at Bardia in the Western Desert.”
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1940· 1 entry
Career landmark: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1940–1945).
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1939· 1 entry
Eden joined the Territorial Army with the rank of major, in the London Rangers motorised battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps and was at annual camp with them in Beaulieu, Hampshire, when he heard news of the Moloto
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1938· 1 entry
When Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich to Parliament with his and Hitler's signature on the Munich peace agreement, most of the MPs in the house rose in tumultuous acclamation
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1935· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1935–1945).
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Baldwin sent Eden on a two-day visit to see Hitler, with whom he dined twice
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1935–1938).
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Lord Privy Seal (1933–1935).
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1931· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 36th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1931–1935).
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1929· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1929–1931).
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1926· 1 entry
That was highly critical of the detrimental effect of socialism on Australia and to which Stanley Baldwin wrote a foreword
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1924· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1924–1929).
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1923· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 33rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1923–1924).
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1922· 1 entry
Had a private income of £706 after tax (approximately £375,000 and £35,000 at 2014 prices)
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1917· 1 entry
Awarded Military Cross (1917).
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1916· 1 entry
Near Ploegsteert, Eden had to lead a small raid into an enemy trench to kill or capture enemy soldiers to identify the enemy units opposite
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1914· 2 entries
Eden had an elder brother, John, who was killed in action in 1914, and a younger brother, Nicholas, who was killed when the battlecruiser HMS Indefatigable blew up and sank at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
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And a younger brother, Nicholas, who was killed when the battlecruiser HMS Indefatigable blew up and sank at the Battle of Jutland in 1916
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1897· 2 entries
Born 1897-06-12.
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Robert Anthony Eden was born on 12 June 1897 at Windlestone Hall, County Durham, into a conservative family of landed gentry.
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1896· 1 entry
But Wyndham was an infrequent visitor to Windlestone and probably did not reciprocate Sybil's feelings
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