Anthony Eden Biography

Member of the House of Communities Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister of Great Britain Eden Eden, Anthony R. Comes from an aristocratic family. He graduated from Oxford University, where he studied oriental languages. He took part in the 1st World War. Member of the Parliament from the Conservative Party in the years. Political activity began in the year as a parliamentary private secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the years - the Lord -Guardian of the Press, in the year - the Minister for League of Nations, in the years - the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Criticizing the policy of encouraging fascist aggression, pursued by the Chamberlain government, Eden diverged mainly on tactics. In the years of Iden - the Minister for Dominionic Affairs. In the years - the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Churchill.

In the years - Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister. From to January, the Prime Minister. For the main organizers of the Suez adventure, see the Anglo-Franco-Israeli aggression against Egypt, after the shameful failure of which he resigned and moved away from political activity. In the year he published memoirs in which he tried to justify his policy.

Soviet historical encyclopedia. In 16 volumes. Volume 5. The son of the 7th Baron of Eden. Education received at the end and college of the Church of Christ in Oxford, who graduated from the Father and Grandfather of Eden. A participant in the 1st World War, since June, fought in France, the major of his brother - Nicholas - died in the Yutland battle.

For differences in the battle on Somma, he was awarded the military cross. He devoted the main efforts to issues of military and foreign policy. For the Parliamentary Secretary of the head of Foreign Office O., for many years was closely connected with British foreign policy. In the office of R. McDonald, he served as a state secretary of the secretary for foreign affairs of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In the formation of the cabinet, S. Baldwin received the post of head for the office of the office. In February, he resigned because of his tactical disagreements with Prime Minister N. Chamberlain, who pursued the “policy of peace” of Germany. After the creation of the coalition office, U. Churchill at the same time during the war was the leader of the House of Commons. In May, he visited the locations of the British troops in France.

He made a large number of visits, in December, he refused to recognize the pre-war borders of the USSR, but then he managed to reach agreements with the leadership of the USSR, as a result of which the Soviet-British union agreement was signed in May. At the same time to the leader of the House of Commons. He participated in the work of the Tehran, Crimean and Potsdam conferences, as well as other international conferences.

In September, he opposed the “Morgentau Plan” and the dismantling of the German industry after the war. In July, the conservatives lost the elections, and the government resigned. To the deputy leader of the parliamentary opposition. A convinced supporter of the preservation of the British colonial empire, as well as a policy aimed at creating a coalition of European powers against the USSR.

One of the initiators of the Anglo-Franco-Israeli aggression against Egypt in after her failure was forced to 9. The author of the Memoirs, Comrade K., who was in the Second World War. Allies of the USSR. Eden, Anthony r. He graduated from college in the end, then Oxford University. Married to the daughter of the Yorkshire banker Beckett, the owner of the influential conservative newspaper "Yorkshire Post".

He participated in the First World War with the rank of captain. In the year, he was elected to the parliament from the conservative party. In the years, Eden was the parliamentary secretary of O. Chamberlain, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Iden was the most striking representative of the group of "young conservatives", demanding more flexibility from the party and put forward the program of positive reforms.

In the year, Baldwin, in order to smooth out the impression of the appointment of Simon, known for his progerman sympathies, appointed Eden with his deputy. Iden, however, had no influence on Simon’s policy neither when discussing the Manchurian incident, nor at the disarmament conference. Baldwin, who in those years patronized Eden, chose it to establish personal contact with the heads of a number of governments.

To give the identity more authority, in the year Baldwin appointed him to the Lord of the press. In the year, Eden accompanied Simon during a meeting with Hitler in Berlin. Then Iden headed for Moscow, Warsaw and Prague. As a result of Moscow negotiations, Communus 1. IV was published, which indicated the interest of both countries in strengthening collective security; On the lack of contradictions between both countries in all basic issues of international politics and the mutual understanding that "the integrity and success of each of them correspond to the interests of the other." For the Baldwin government, the Eden trip to Moscow was predominantly a diplomatic gesture.The foreign policy was carried out at that time by Simon, and the mission of Eden was to reassure public opinion and create a kind of diplomatic reinsurance in case the policy of "peace" does not justify itself.

At that time, British diplomacy was sealing political and organizational bifurcation. This position was discovered even more clearly when Samuel Horus, also a supporter of "peace", replaced Simun in the middle of the year. Eden was simultaneously appointed Minister for League of Nations. In October, after the scandalous exposure of the “Hor - Laval Plan”, aimed at the Ethiopia section, Eden was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The general course of English policy, however, has not undergone significant changes. This is evidenced by facts such as the position of England during the period of termination of the Lcarnsky pact in the spring of the year and the parcel to Hitler with the special mission of Lord Galifax coming to power Neville Chamberlain in May marked the final turn towards the policy of "peacefulness" of the aggressors.

II Eden defiantly resigned. The immediate reason for the resignation was the disagreement between the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in connection with the prepared Anglo-Italian agreement. As Eden in his speech in the parliament of the II pointed out, the point was not only in disagreements on the Italian issue. There were discrepancies between him and the prime minister on a number of other issues, in particular, on the issue of Austria: Chamberlain decided not to prevent Austria's captured by Hitler.

Even before Chamberlain without consultation with Een, in the absence of the latter, he rejected Roosevelt’s proposal for joint diplomatic pressure on Germany. Eden after the resignation did not lead an active struggle against Chamberlain, the main inspirer of the policy of "peace", motivating this with the need to maintain the unity of the conservative party. In the years, as soon as the war began, Eden at the same time with Churchill entered the Chamberlain government and became the Minister for Dominionic Affairs.

In the year, he took the post of military minister in Churchill's office. In December, Eden returned to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and occupied him until the defeat of conservatives in the parliamentary elections in July. During the war against Nazi Germany, Eden took an active part in the conclusion of the Anglo-Soviet agreement of the year on joint actions in the war against Germany and the Anglo-Soviet Union Treaty of the Year.

In December, Eden visited Moscow and had conversations with I. Stalin and V. Eden also took an active part in the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers of the three powers X, in the Tehran conference of the leaders of the three union powers XII, in the Crimean conference in February, the conference in San Francisco and in the first part of the Berlin conference of three powers that occurred in the VII- 2.

VIII year. In connection with the formation of the Labor Government, England at the end of the Berlin conference was represented by Ettli and Bevin instead of Churchill and Iden. Throughout the war, I. The strengthening of reactionary anti -Soviet trends in the politics of the English conservatives by the end of the Second World War affected the position of Eden.

In the spring of the year, he spoke at the conference of the Scottish organization of conservatives with a speech, in which he stated that England always created coalitions against the powers who "claimed dominance in Europe," and would create them in the future if such a threat arose.