Evening star., 1935-12-29
SPEEDY RETURN OF HOARE
TO CABINET IS EXPECTED
Shake Up in London Awaited After
Broken Nose Incident and Running
of English Week End.

Switzerland, leaving capt. Eden 10
worry over foreign affairs. 1t Is great
to become a foreign minister at 80,
but otherwise Eden has burdensome
task. His problem is how to please
the English and the League without
unduly offending Italy, how to ex-
tend the sanctions without provoking
Premier Benito Mussolini, how to
convince France and the other League
powers that lip service is not enough,
that battleships must enforce coll
lective security.
Within six months public opinion
has driven two foreign ministers from
office. Sir John Simon lost favor for
failing to resist the Japanese invasion
OF Manchuria, Hoare resigned after
weakening on a strong stand against
the Italian invasion of Abyssinia.
Capt. Eden still has to cope with the
Japanese and Italians, not to men
ton the insurgent Egyptians.
The impending shake-up in the
cabinet may affect as least four posi-
tions-Prime Minister Baldwin, Ram
say Macdonald, the lord president of
the council; Malcolm Macdonald, do
minions secretary. and Lord Bolton
Eyres-Monsell. secretary of the ad-
miralty. Lord Monsell Is expected to
retire after the naval conference.
MacDonalds May Retire.
The two MacDonalds may be forced
to retire because If the lost Commons
seat at the last election. They are
having trouble finding a safe return
by the elections and cannot remain
indefinitely in the cabinet without
seats.
As for Baldwin, he won a five-year
lease on his job at the election last
month. 1t was then predicted he
would voluntarily retire before five
five years to enjoy life as a country
squire. Since then the Abyssinian
peace plan, which he first embraced,
then kicked, has reduced his popu-
lartty and Baldwin must 20" cries
are heard throughout the land.
Any Socialist government which
negotiated such a plan would have
fallen from Office, according to Bald
wins Socialist son, Oliver, who adds,
In the present instance there is
no such likelihood and the only pos
sibility Is that the prime minister,
who has for some time looked for an
opportune time to retire from politics,
may see in his present unfortunate
position a way of escape from the
burdens of high office which he has
borne on and of for the past IL
years"
Hoare Expected Back in Cabinet.
If Baldwin goes, Neville Chamber
lain. Eden or Hoare may be the next
premier. Everyone expects Hoare will
return to the cabinet after the Swiss
cure. Although he has incurred the
enmity Of the Leaguers, his popularity
with Boldwin, the King and the press
remains high, the belief being that
he was the scapegoat for Baldwin'S
''two-way" mind.
Hoare may come back as foreign
minister, as chancellor of the excheu-
uer, or as premier In any event.
Great Britain has not seen the end
of the Hoare- Eden feud.
Eden, by the way. traces his ances-
try bac..: to one of the first families
OF Maryland. His full name is Robert
Anthony Eden and he is a brother
of Sir Timothy Eden, sixth baronet
OF Maryland. The Maryland title was
given to the third baronet, who was
appointed Governor of Maryland in
the first year of the Revolutionary
War.
One who knows Eden describes
him as IAN eighteenth century figure;
a cultured, fastidious English gentle
man who is able in a dozen ways, too
able in none; who can talk of Cezanne,
Proust and Garbo in German or
Arabic; who can refrain from shooting
an elk because of the beauty of its
silhouette. Lumpily dressed Latins
sneer at Edens extreme elegance; he
shrugs an Oxonian brow and turns
on hij slightly rabbit toothed but
pleasant smile"