Zhukov, Georgy (1974). Marshal of Victory, Volume II. Pen and Sword Books Ltd. p.50. ISBN 978-1-78159-291-5. Roberts, Chalmers (April 1960). "Suez in Retrospect: Anthony Eden's Memoirs". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 8 November 2021 . Retrieved 21 July 2012. On 19 November, Eden was transferred to the General Staff as a General Staff Officer Grade 3 (GSO3), with the temporary rank of captain. [42] He served at Second Army HQ between mid-November 1917 and 8 March 1918, missing out on service in Italy (as the 41st Division had been transferred there after the Italian Second Army was defeated at the Battle of Caporetto). Eden returned to the Western Front as a major German offensive was clearly imminent, only for his former battalion to be disbanded to help alleviate the British Army's acute manpower shortage. [32] Although David Lloyd George, then the British prime minister, was one of the few politicians of whom Eden reported frontline soldiers speaking highly, he wrote to his sister (23 December 1917) in disgust at his "wait and see twaddle" in declining to extend conscription to Ireland. [43] a b c The Rt Hon Lord Owen CH (6 May 2005). "The effect of Prime Minister Anthony Eden's illness on his decision-making during the Suez crisis". Qjmed.oxfordjournals.org. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012 . Retrieved 21 July 2012.

UK considered cutting off Nile". BBC News. Archived from the original on 3 March 2007 . Retrieved 21 June 2011. Attlee was convinced that public opinion could stop Hitler, saying in a speech in the House of Commons: Eden also resigned from the House of Commons when he stood down as prime minister. [174] Eden kept in touch with Lord Salisbury, agreeing with him that Macmillan had been the better choice as prime minister, but sympathising with his resignation over Macmillan's Cyprus policy. Despite a series of letters in which Macmillan almost begged him for a personal endorsement prior to the 1959 election, Eden only issued a declaration of support for the Conservative Government. [175] Eden retained much of his personal popularity in Britain and contemplated returning to Parliament. Several Conservative MPs were reportedly willing to give up their seats for him, although the party hierarchy was less keen. He finally gave up such hopes in late 1960 after an exhausting speaking tour of Yorkshire. [174] Macmillan initially offered to recommend him for a viscountcy, which Eden assumed to be a calculated insult, and he was granted an earldom (which was then the traditional rank for a former prime minister) after reminding Macmillan that he had already been offered one by the Queen. [175] He entered the House of Lords as the Earl of Avon in 1961. [176]

Before Fame

In 1951 the Conservatives returned to office and Eden became Foreign Secretary for a third time. [113] Churchill was largely a figurehead in the government, and Eden had effective control of British foreign policy for the second time, with the decline of the empire and the intensifying of the Cold War. Churchill wanted to appoint Eden Deputy Prime Minister as well as Foreign Secretary, but the King objected and said that the office did not exist in the UK constitution and might interfere with his ability to appoint a successor. [114] [115] Thus, Eden was not appointed Deputy Prime Minister. [114] [116] However, he still considered himself Churchill's "second-in-command" and had been regarded as Churchill's "crown prince" since 1942. [117] Negotiations in London and Paris in 1954 ended the allied occupation of West Germany and allowed for its rearmament as a NATO member. He was buried in St Mary's churchyard at Alvediston, Wiltshire, just three miles upstream from 'Rose Bower', at the source of the River Ebble. Lord Avon's papers are housed at the University of Birmingham Special Collections. [209]

Keith Layborn (2002). Fifty Key Figures in Twentieth Century British Politics. Routledge. p.102. ISBN 978-1-134-58874-9. Archived from the original on 7 December 2016 . Retrieved 8 May 2016. Photos, Lisa. "The Dog and the Last Real Man: An Interview with John S. Wojtowicz". Journal of Bisexuality. 3 (2).Volunteering for service in the British Army, like many others of his generation, Eden served with the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC), a Kitchener's Army unit, initially recruited mainly from County Durham country labourers, who were increasingly replaced by Londoners after losses at the Somme in mid-1916. [32] He was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant on 2 November 1915 (antedated to 29 September 1915). [33] [34] His battalion transferred to the Western Front on 4 May 1916 as part of the 41st Division. [32] On 31 May 1916, Eden's younger brother, Midshipman William Nicholas Eden, was killed in action, aged 16, on board HMS Indefatigable during the Battle of Jutland. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. [35] His brother-in-law, Lord Brooke, was wounded during the war. [32] Mount, Ferdinand (4 January 2018). "Always the Same Dream". The London Review of Books. 40 (1). Archived from the original on 26 September 2020 . Retrieved 9 September 2020.