Mr Eden’s Chances: May Yet Become P.M.; Baldwin Leanings

Northern Advocate, 16 July 1938, Page 7

Mr Eden’s Chances: May Yet Become P.M.; Baldwin Leanings

(Received 12. 3 C p.m.) LONDON, July 15. T7ARL BALDWIN, SAYS THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS. WHO, DESPITE HIS RETIREMENT, REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL INFLUENCES BN BRITISH POLITICS, HAS SET THE LOBBIES BUZZING. IT HAS NOW BECOME KNOWN THAT HE FAVOURS MR ANTHONY EDEN TO SUCCEED MR CHAMBERLAIN WHEN THE LATTER RETIRES.

The disclosure of this fact, which in a journal of world-wide standing, article referred to is by Mr Victor ent of the "Daily Telegraph," London, After tracing Mr Eden's career to the concludes: "Mr Eden is enjoying his an active part in rallying the youth may lie ahead. As these lines are wr his future plans will lead him into ac leaders of public thought, such as Win fined to remain out of office for some

i is completely confirmed here, appears the American "Foreign Affairs." The Gordon Lennox, political correspond- , and is entitled "Anthony Eden." i point of his resignation, the writer freedom, and apparently plans to take i cf Britain to face whatever struggle •Itten. it is too early to say whether :tual collaboration with other political i-ten Churchill. Probably he is des- ; time tc come.

Possibilities Summed Up. “Ho is not likely to accept any new appointment in a Chamberlain Government. But it is inevitable that he will ‘come again,’ if only because he is the natural representative of a generation into whose hands control of public affairs must necessarily pass with the normal march of time. “Besides, he enjoys the personal backing of Earl Baldwin, still, in his retirement, a powerful figure in British Conservative circles. Lord Baldwin has re-written his former political testaments, which named Sir Samuel Hoare as next Conservative leader after Mr Neville Chamberlain. The name of Hoare has been erased, and that of Anthony Eden substituted.” A General Belief. In its comments at the time of Mr Eden’s resignation of the office of Foreign Secretary, “The Times,” in paying tribute to his work, said: “Many people believe that the Prime Ministership ultimately will not go beyond Mr Eden’s grasp. They will be the last to regard the present break in his career as a catastrophe.