Eden renews friendship with Senator Pittman. Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. Anthony Eden today called upon Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, at his office in the Capitol. Both men declined to discuss their talk, saying that the 45-minute period was 'friendly talk' and that they were going over their last meeting in London during the economic conference in 1933, 121438
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Two men sitting at a table in front of a bookcase, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
Anthony Eden's Prime Minster term was dominated by the Suez crisis. When Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956 Eden joined France and Israel in authorizing an unsuccessful invasion. He was harshly criticized around the world and resigned in 1957.
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