Promoted to the position of Lord Privy Seal in 1934 he figured prominently in the debates at the League of Nations as principal assistant to Sir John Simon and as the mouthpiece of the British Government when Sir John Simon, owing to pressure of business at home, was unable to be present at Geneva In Cabinet reshuffle of 1935, when Sir Samuel Hoare became Foreign Secretary, Mr, Eden was appointed to the newly created post of Minister without portfolio for League of Nations Affairs, It was on December 22, 1935, when Sir Samuel Hoare resigned following publication of the famous Hoare-
Laval plan for partitioning Abyssinia during the Italo~Abyssinian war, that Mr. Eden succeeded to the post of Foreign Secretary—Reuter, 142 Museum Road. Tel 17100
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