ters and two foreign poticies—will not be filled. No special significance 4 attached to this fact.
Dec, 23.
The newspapers this morning mostly welcome Mr. Anthony Eden's apointment as Foreign Secretary fuceession to Sir Samuel Hoare, the All. the journals devote columns: to descriptions of Mr. Eden's meteoric rise to fame, and point out that he the youngest Foreign Secretary since the Earl of Granville, who held that post in 1851 when he was 37 years of age. Mr, Eden is, howe: only two months younger than Lord) Roseberry when ihe larier was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1886.
"The Times" says that Stanley] Raldwin, the Prime Minister, has taken a straightforward, course. In selecting Mr, Eden, the journal con-'ennes, he is able to call upon youth and experience combined, and the Government can go forward again, firmly authorized by public opinion to support the policy of maintaining common front against aggression and finding a means of ending war by a peaceful settlement.
pessimistic note is struck by the "Daily Express," which declares that 'Mr. Eden' has' shawn himself asa} man with a fixed idea but in. the Tecent crisis he showed himsel£ to be ithout sufclent resolution to adhere The "Dally Herald" voices the! opinion that any other choice would have been a blunder of the. frst magnitude, Mr, Baldwin, it adds, has done the obvious thing, which is'also the right thing—Reuter.
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