To-day's special meeting of the Cabinet—the first Saturday meeting for more than a year—aroused a great deal of interest in the press, where it was assumed that foreign affairs were the chief subject under discussion, and, in particular, Anglo-Italian relations.
In this connection, the Prime Minister and Mr. Eden were, of course, in a position to inform their colleagues on the conversations they bad yesterday with the Italian Ambassador, Coun: Dino Grandi, Mr. Chamberlain returned from Birmingham, where he had a Constituency engagement last night, about an hour before the Cabinet meeting opened. After a session of nearly three hours and a half, the meeting was adjourned until Sunday afternoon.
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