MR R. A. EDEN APPOINTED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 61, 23 December 1935, Page 5

MR R. A. EDEN APPOINTED.

RECENT POSITION ABOLISH^D. . MISTROST FELT IN ITALY. (United. Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) , LONDON, December 22. Mr R. A. Eden has been appointed Foreign Secretary. - Mr Eden's former post of Minister for League Affairs will not be filled, thereby eliminating the system of duality in the Foreign Office carried on by Sir Samuel Hoare and Mr Eden. Italy mistrustfully views Mr Eden’s appointment as rendering a conciliatory conclusion to the crisis more remote, but Berlin is pleased that Sir Austen Chamberlain has not been appointed, owing; to - his pro-French leanings. FRENCH OPINION HARDENED. EFFECTS OF DUCE’S BITTERNESS PARIS, Dec. 20. M. Laval returned from Geneva to find that opinion had decidedly hardened against Signor Mussolini. Opinion is crystallising that if Signor Mussolini had been more conciliatory in stead of bitter in his speech at Pontina, Mr Baldwin might have taken a different line and Sir Samuel Hoare might not have resigned. MUSSOLINI’S SPEECH. NOT A REPLY TO PROPOSALS. ROME, Dec. 20. Official circles declare that Signor ■ Mussolini’s speech at Pontina was in nowise a reply to the Anglo-French proposals, but there is a growing feeling that the Duce blundered in describing them as a trick.