London, Jan. 5.
"I deprecate so much talk about the danger of war. War is not imminent," declared Mr, Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal, in a speech at Newcastle last night, in which he reviewed the international situation, Any considerable outbreak of hostilities, he added, must be fatal not only to the vanquished, but also to the victors, Mr. Eden admitted that 1994 had been an "anxious and buffetted" year, but he claimed that its closing weeks had seen n definite, even a startling, improvement in the international outlook,
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