London, Apr. 19.
The politico! correspondent of the "Evening Standard" asserts that the Prime Minister, Mr Neville Chamberlain, intends to resign from his post in 1939 after' the general elections which will probably be held in the autumn that year.
The correspondent points out that Mr. Chamberlain will then be seventy years old. The date of the Prime Minister's resignation will depend on the further developments of the foreign situation as Mr. Chamberlain will regard his mission as completed if he succeeds in supplementing the Anglo-Italian agreement by an agreement with Germany.
According to the correspondent, Sir John Simon, who is now 58 years old, and Sir Thomas Inskip, who is now 52 years old, are considered as the most likely candidates for premiership among the elder statesmen if Mr. Chamberlain should decide to resign in the autumn of 1939.—Trans-Ocean.
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