Eden, who is spending a holiday on the Hampshire Coast, came back to London in the middle of last week and will do so again this week, He will be at the Foreign Office this afternoon, and he and Lord Halifax. Lord Privy Seal, who is officially in charge of the Foreign Office during Mr, Eden's holiday, will both take the opportunity f the presence in London on a %flying visit on Wednesday of the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, on the foreign situation and the position in the Far East, in particular, and to discuss relevant matters with him.
Mr. Chamberlain, after returning north, will go at the end of the week to Balmoral where he will be the guest of the King and Queen and will act as Minister in Attendance, Meanwhile, the British Government still without any reply from the Japanese and Chinese Governments to the suggestion made for the re~ storation of the situation at Shanghai, which, according to to-day's news telegrams, continues to deteriorate.
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