NATIONAL LEADERS: Anthony Eden
T= defence of Britain is now the responsibility of the Right Hon, Robert Anthony Eden, P.C., M.C., Minister of State for War in Mr. Churchill’s Cabinet. His choice of commanding officers for that onerous duty has been made, and reports on their activities, at least those which are permitted to be released, are encouraging. From 1935 until 1938 he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, now
regarded as a critical period in our history, There was a great outcry when he resigned that office. Anthony Eden is 43, the second son of a baronet. At Oxford University he took his B.A. degree with First Class Honours in Oriental Languages after he returned from the last war, where he fought from 1915 to 1919 with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. At 18 he was a 2nd Lieut.; at the end of the war he had gained his M.C, and was Brigade Major. In 1923 Anthony Eden married a daughter of the Hon. Sir Gervase Beckett, one of the leading newspaper proprietors of England. After that he dabbled in journalism and in 1925 he attended the Imperial Press Conference in Melbourne, afterwards coming on to New Zealand. The year of his marriage also saw his entry to the House of Commons as member for Warwick and Leamington, a seat which he has held ever since. Three years later he became a@ private secretary to Sir Austen Chamberlain who was then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; in 1931 he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Foreign Office. From 1934 to -35 he was Lord Privy Seal and the following year Minister without Portfolio for League of Nations Affairs, Mr, Eden has always advocated an anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi policy. He has two sons at school.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 2
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