 Eden became , at 38 , the youngest Foreign Secretary since Pitt the Younger in the late 18th century . As a relatively youthful politician among mostly much older men , he appeared fashionably dressed , even flamboyant . In 1936 the American magazine Time referred to his " pin @-@ stripe trousers , modish short jacket and swank black felt hat " , worn during a diplomatic mission to the League of Nations in Geneva . Many remarked too on Eden 's " film star " appeal , even as late as the 1950s when , as Prime Minister , he retained his youthful good looks . His biographer D. R. Thorpe , who likened the young Eden to a mixture of Sir Galahad ( Eden won the Military Cross in the First World War ) and Beau Brummel ( the Regency dandy in whose London house Eden lived for a time ) , commented on a photograph of him , arriving in Russia by train in hat and fur @-@ lined coat in 1935 , that " it seemed to some as if Tolstoy 's Count Vronsky [ a glamorous character in the novel Anna Karenina ] were alighting at the platform " . 
