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THE BRITISH CABINET

the peace. He has been a centre of disaffection and it is certain that he will preach force on be- half of peace, but with implica- tions that would wreck any Bri- tish Government that lent him a the fate of Mr. Eden will be the sympathetic ear. For the rest,

subject of debate, until it is seen that he cannot be done without. His judgment is ripening and his undoubted experience and ability

Mr. Stanley Baldwin's retire.may make him still a real Minis-

terial asset. ment, soon after the Coronation, is now accepted as a certainty, and the reshuffling of the Our Embassy At Madrid The Spanish civil war has

Cabinet becomes a matter of Supreme importance not only to Great Britain herself, but to the produced a number of self-sacri- Empire as a whole. Indeed, the icing and devoted persons who whole civilised world is watching that war is remembered. Con- will not be forgotten as long as |and wondering. The Prime Min-

ister is coming to the close of Ogilvie Forbes, the

spicuous amongst them is Mr. notable career with a greatly Charge d'Affaires in Madrid, British enhanced prestige, and he will who was the guest of honour at retire with a nation's esteem and gratitude made visible in the cia last Friday prior to his de- a Government banquet in Valen- need for a reconstituted: Cabinet parture to take up his new ap- holding the nation's confidence unimpaired. Mr. Neville Cham extent of his achievement will in pointment in Berlin. The full berlain is apparently accepted as all probability never be known- Mr. Baldwin's successor; but the help given directly and in- with hesitancy on the part of directly to Spanish women and certain Conservatives who have children, the tactful intervention been restless for some time. Sir on behalf of prisoners or men Samuel Hoare has their sup condemned to die or in danger of port, and his handling of the execution, and many other ac- Abyssinian crisis up to the date tions that had to be performed of his retirement from the with the greatest diplomatic Foreign Office has not been ac skill and discretion so as not to counted to him by his colleagues be construed as interferences as altogether his mistake. It with other people's affairs, how- may even be imagined that Mr. ever justified the interference Eden doubts whether he himself might be from a humanitarian might not have handled the standpoint. The immense and complicated problem more wise superbly organised work of re- fly.

One of the immediate ques British navy in Spain is well lief and evacuation done by the tions now, however, is what is known. That work has profited to be done with the League of many who Nations and how a new Prime jects.

are not British sub- Minister and a reconstituted which Mr.

similar work of Cabinet will deal with it. Mr.the centre is less well known, but Ogilvie Forbes was Neville Chamberlain is being de-fall British residents in Madrid bated with this in mind. The and the outlying regions, as well matter of overwhelming imporf-as many who are not British, ance is whether he is the best will remember it with lifelong man to hold a new Nationalist gratitude. Government staunchly together.

Probably at no time in our his Join The Army And tory has the future for Europe

and the world seemed so difficult The present difficulty and confused, and only a strong taiming recruits is not unique in and harmonious Britain can give the British Army. At various the world a sense of security, no periods in our history men were matter what Germany may say shy about offering their services or da

as soldiers. An appeal issued in Mr. Neville Chamberlain at 1801 when recruits were urgent- Downing Street as head of a ly equired for the Light strong Nationalist Cabinet will Dragoo

subtly phrased not have any need to consider that perhaps the War another election The last elec-might adopt a similar.

De of tion was held in 1935, and the verbal strategy to arouse the Labour element in Opposition soldiers complex in the modern did not make any serious gains.young man By-elections, of course, are al- ways due, and up to the present finest the signs have not been adverse superb as far as the present Gover ment was lost to Labour and Prest

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