| EDEN ARRIVES AT HOME Sir Anthony Eden arrives back in Britain after visit to the United States and Canada. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 8571 | |
| Catalog #: | 142908 | |
| Clip Number: | 142908-2 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 2811 C | |
| Timecode: | 01:27:04 - 01:31:33 | |
| Location: | London | |
| Year Shot: | 1956 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Misc. JOURNALISM: Press Conference LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London PERSONALITIES: Eden, Anthony PERSONALITIES: Selwyn Lloyd, John | |
| Description: | LS the Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden enters room with Selwyn Lloyd (the Foreign Secretary) and others, and takes off his coat. LS Eden and Lloyd sitting down, Eden starts to speak. "All right. First of all it’s very good to be back again. While we were in Ottawa the Prime Minister of Canada, was introducing me to the two houses of Parliament whom he asked me to speak. He congratulated the fine Secretary and myself on the outcome of the work which we done in Washington. And he added, what we know all of us to be true, that of course when relations between London and Washington are good, then Canada is happy. I can assure you that relations between ourselves and the United States have never been closer than they are today. Now let us just run through a few of the difficulties of the world to illustrate what I mean. In Europe not so long ago the main cause of much anxiety. In Europe there is no difference of any kind between us, the Arab -Israeli dispute (Israeli-Egypt friction) is the most immediate danger in the Middle East. There we have agreed on three methods on trying to handle it. First, by trying to get, without publicity, the two parties nearer together. We also offered help on our own account, but both the United States and ourselves, in the form of money to help settle the unhappy refugees and a guarantee of frontiers once they are agreed. That’s one method. The second is, the Foreign Secretary as much advocated, likely I think, perhaps to try and increase the number of observers on the frontier and reduce the chance of incidence. The third is the obligations, which fall on us, the United States and ourselves, and on the French, under the 1950 Tripartite Declaration. We decided to examine between ourselves what steps might be taken back to give effect to our obligations. Now the French, I understand have since accepted to join in that work. For all those three headings, once again that is complete agreement between the United States and ourselves. And then they gave back, they gave strong support to that organization which is both economic and political and which we intend to do all we can, to make truly effective to that reach. Saudi Arabia, we explained why we couldn’t return to methods of arbitration in view of what had happened in the past, but we said and indeed I did a (inaudible) some time ago, that we were ready for direct discussions and it was agreed that we would try to proceed by those methods. (Baghdad pact) | |
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