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The World at War
1973
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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.
Private papers of the Eden family released in 2006 revealed that Eden was actually prescribed Drinamyl. Drinamyl was the cocktail amphetamines and barbiturates better known as “Purple Hearts”. Judgement and insight can be markedly impaired on this product, banned since 1978.
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. After combat service in World War I, Eden studied Oriental languages (Arabic and Persian) at Christ Church, Oxford.
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,...
Nov 25, 2016 · In his book Sir Anthony Eden and the Suez Crisis: Reluctant Gamble, Jonathan Pearson writes of the high doses of drugs Eden was prescribed in the 1950s: “The initial euphoria they produced...
Apr 17, 2022 · The role that his iatrogenic injury, its long term sequelae, and the cocktail of drugs he took to treat them played in his decision making has been an ongoing source of debate almost from the time of the crisis. This article reviews the Suez crisis, Eden's medical history, and the debate over Eden’s health.
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 to retire along with Churchill in 1955, he would be remembered as a great Foreign Secretary.
