MR ANTHONY EDEN
POSSIBLE INCLUSION RECONSTRUCTED MINISTRY LONDON, Dec. 22. .Mr, Anthony Eden, the former Foreign Secretary, will be invited to rejoin the Cabinet when (the expected Ministerial reshuffle .takes place next month, according to the political correspondent of the Daily Mail. “The Cabinet,” he states, “will be reconstructed on a (broader national basis. Sir ThOmas Inskip, the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, may 'become Lord Chancellor in place of Lord iMaughan, and Sir Samuel 1-loare, the .Home Secretary, or Sir Kingsley Wood, the Secretary for Air, may replace Sir Thomas Inskip as Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, with more comprehensive powers. “Lord Winterton, the Chancellor of the Duclhy of Lancaster, and Lord Runciman, the 'Lord President of the Council, will remain in the Cabinet, but the position of Mr. L. HoreBelisha, the Secretary for War, is still most uncertain. “The stock of the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, with his colleagues, and even his opponents, grows higher daily. There will be no difficulty in the way of his leading a wider National Government.” For the moment, there is likely to be a political lull until after Mr. Chamberlain’s visit to Rome, the result of which will determine
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19825, 30 December 1938, Page 5
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