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The World at War
1973
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Eden's drug regimen is now commonly agreed to have been a part of the reason for his bad judgment while prime minister. The Thorpe biography, however, denied Eden's abuse of Benzedrine, stating that the allegations were "untrue, as is made clear by Eden's medical records at Birmingham University , not yet [at the time] available for research".
During the 1956 Suez crisis, according to Post, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden desperately sought his doctor, saying, “I must have my benzedrine!” In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy relied on a “doctor to the stars” for injections that a new biography identifies as methamphetamine.
Nov 4, 2006 · Rumours have circulated for decades that Eden, who was Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957 and was suffering from a debilitating illness at the height of the crisis in 1956, was taking addictive,...
May 6, 2005 · It was a misfortune not just for the Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, but for international diplomacy, that on 12 April 1953, what should have been a routine cholecystectomy in the London Clinic, went badly wrong.
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, an overwrought Eden “lived on Benzedrine”. The drug undoubtedly impaired his judgement. Its effects may have contributed to Eden’s near-collapse, both physically and emotionally, and his resignation as premier the following year.
Anthony Eden (born June 12, 1897, Windlestone, Durham, England—died January 14, 1977, Alvediston, Wiltshire) was a British foreign secretary in 1935–38, 1940–45, and 1951–55 and prime minister from 1955 to 1957.
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...
Nov 25, 2016 · The penultimate scene of the series’s first season shows an unwell Eden passed out from a drug injection as newsreel footage of then Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt ( Amir Boutrous) burns...
Nov 4, 2006 · Rumours have circulated for decades that Eden, who was Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957 and was suffering from a debilitating illness at the height of the crisis in 1956, was taking addictive,...
Jun 7, 2021 · Anthony Eden’s reputation is dominated by his ill-fated premiership, and in particular by the 1956 Suez disaster. Yet if chronic ill-health had forced him.
