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The World at War
1973
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Eden was addicted to morphine and Benzedrine, which was a commercial brand of amphetamines. By the time he became Prime Minister he had quit morphine but was still heavily addicted to Benzedrine. The side effects of the drug included insomnia, restlessness, and mood swings, all which Eden exhibited during the Suez Canal Crisis.
Jan 28, 1990 · The gravity of his condition was carefully shrouded from the public while Anthony Eden played a stabilizing role behind the scenes. ... was "not your common drug addict," nonetheless "his ...
Jul 21, 2006 · His biographer, DR Thorpe, points to how Eden's use of drugs against the pain increased in the ensuing years. And he took amphetamines and barbituarates to counteract the side effects of the...
Dec 8, 2017 · One of the final shots in season 1 showed Prime Minister Anthony Eden (Jeremy Northam) passed out in a drug-induced haze as newsreel footage of Egypt's leader, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser...
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Eden, in telling this story for the first time, does not speculate on why Eisenhower changed his mind. But there is no doubt of his suspicions as to who was responsible—John Foster Dulles. The ...
Jan 15, 1977 · January 14, 1977 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Sir Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, once the prime minister of Britain and three times its foreign secretary, died at his home yesterday in Wiltshire, England. He ...
Apr 15, 2020 · British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden gives a television and radio speech about the Suez Canal crisis in London on August 9, 1956. - An Anglo-French intervention was launched after Egypt's President Nasser nationalized the Suez canal 26 July 1956. End of December diplomatic action by the USA and the USSR forced Britain and France to withdraw ...
