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PREMIER
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
DENIES
CLASH WITH MR. EDEN Allegations Of Serious British Cabinet Crisis KING CAROL AT SUNDAY PAPER STATES BELGIAN
FOREIGN SECRETARY
FOREIGN AFFAIRS CONFERENCE
COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
Bucharest, To-day.
A council of ministers, presided over by King Carol, was held here yesterday, a number of important. measures being decided upon.
The new Premier is to undertake reform of the oath of allegiance, which in future will be based only on the legal oath.
State officials in future will not be allowed to participate in poli- tical demonstrations, while the press
is to be thoroughly purged by sup pression of "noxious" organs and investigation of the sources of in-
come of different papers-Trans-
Ocean.
PUTSCH LEADER PARDONED
Kovno, To-day.
MAY RESIGN
London, To-day.
Brussels, To-day.
Jean
British Government quarters in close touch with
the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Belgian diplomatic represents- found it necessary to issue yesterday a catego-tives from London, Berlin, Rome, rical denial concerning rumours of a British Paris, Prague, Ankara, St.
de Luz, Barcelona, The Hague and Cabinet crisis or of serious differences of opin- Vienna, met here yesterday under ion between Mr. Chamberlain and the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden.
Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Eden, according to re- ports appearing in the press for some time past, have differed over the attitude to be adopted towards Italy.
These differences, according to one newspaper, might even lead to Mr. Eden's resignation. Now it is stated that collaboration between Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Eden is extremely close.
Issuing of the denial followed reports in yesterday's newspapers, of a split in the Cabinet.
The "Sunday Express" even went so far as to declare that a "first class crisis" threatens the Cabinet, first of all on the question of when Britain should take up talks with Signor Mussolini, and, Britain should secondly, whether recognise the conquest of Abys-
STRONG ANTIPATHY
The former Lithuanian Prime Minister, Professor Boldemaras, sentenced to 12 years' penal ser-sinia by Italy. vitude for the leading part he play-. ed in the unsuccessful -military putsch of 1934, has been pardonéd In this connection, asserts the by the President-of-Lithuania. "Sunday Express," strong anti- The pardon was granted in con-pathy exists between Mr. Eden and and the paper nection with the celebration of the Signor Mussolini, 20th anniversary of recovery of Bays that Mr. Chamberlain is in Lithuanian independence, Trans- favour of granting Italy financial Ocean..
MORE UNPLEASANT WEATHER
The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone has moved in- to the Pacific to the east of Japan and another is developing over the Yangtse Valley:
credits, or loans, while Mr. Eden believes that such credits or loans- would merely be used to increase armaments.
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The "Sunday Despatch" also reports that at any moment the conflict might develop in the Cabinet, and adds that Mr. Eden wishes to proceed slowly and in with other League of ↑ Nations Powers according to the traditional course of British diplomacy.
common
CABINET MEETING At the last Cabinet meeting, The depression has increased when the question, was raised of considerably in intensity; It is whether the British Government situated over south Japan, moving should approach Germany before. north eastward. -
or after the Reichstag assembly, winds, these differences of opinion had
some suddenly broken out.
Local forecast:-N. E. fresh; - cloudy... generally drizzle or light rain.
The “Sunday Despatch" de-
the chairmanship of the Belgian Foreign Minister, M. Spaak.
*The deliberations lasted the whole day and covered the European political field.
Ocean.
entire Trans-
ad-
ment on such fundamental ques- tions of policy, Mr. Eden will have to resign or accept some other post in the Cabinet. The paper alleges that in dition, Lord Swinton (Secretary for Air), Sir Samuel Hoare (Home clares that Mr. Chamberlain does Secretary) and Mr. A. Duff Cooper not want by any means to lose (First Lord of the Admiralty) may Mr. Eden, but that if it is found become involved in the complica- impossible to arrive at an agree-Itions-Trans-Ocean.
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