MR EDEN IN U.S.A.

Grey River Argus, 10 December 1938, Page 13

MR EDEN IN U.S.A.

A BROADCAST SPEECH. NEW YORK, December 8. It was at first feared that gales which retarded the liner Aquitania would make impossible the timely V*" rival of Mr Anthony Eden to deliver a broadcast address here at 10 p.m. to-morrow, but a speeding up of the vessel and arrangements to land.him from a Government cutter and rush him. under police escort, to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel seem likely to assure His scheduled broadcast over three of the principal wireless systems of the country. His address, which is entitled “Democracy and the Modern World,” has aroused the greatest expectation as the seats at the dinner where he will speak, totalling four thousand, are already sold out, and demands for thousands more which are pouring in cannot be filled. While Mr Eden's stay in America is to be less than a fortnight, he ha s been overwhelmed with requests to make addresses, ■ confer with public bodies, or to visit institutions '