Speculation is still active over the question of Mr. Anthony Eden's successor as Foreign Secretary, Reuter's Lobby Correspondent reported yesterday.
Four names are being discussed Viscount Halifax.
Lord President of the Council, who has been placed in temporary charge of the Foreign Office; Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for the Ca-ordination of Defence; Mr. W. S. Morrison, Minister of Agriculture, and Mr. Malcolm Mac-Donald, Secretary of State for the Dominions.
Lord Halifax is ruled, out because reflected yesterday in newspaper comment. Support for the attitude taken up by Mr. Eden is confined alnest entirely to the Opposition press, but on all sides, there is full recognition of the high conviction by which the former Foreign Secretary was guided.
Attention is called in "The Times" to one aspect of the crisis which has not perhaps been fully appreciated in certain foreign countries where less freedom of criticism is allowed in Parliament ənd, press "The Times says that the British belief in the value of publicity as a political safeguard, has been fortified during the past two days.
"The full and frank debate in which the House of Commons has investigated the origin of the disagreement between Mr. Eden and his colleagues, has now largely restored a sense of proportion. It has been "elementary vindication' of the institution of Parliament. Nothing has been glossed over or hushed up. Criticism is free and the critics will continue to be heard. But the world has no excuse for misconceiving an event which means ho more at the bottom than that the British Government, ile faithful to its friendships and its principles, will devot new energy io a thorough test of what may be done by a more: positive diplomac: fo- the elimination of the causes o international suspicion and hostility. he does not sit in the House of Commons, although the idea is mooted that he may remain in charge of the Foreign Office during the Anglo-Italian negotiations. In' this event, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, would answer for the For-
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