The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-15
EARL BALDWIN
 BACKING EDEN
Former Foreign Policy Dee rnand Is Made==Chamber-
 lain Is Target Again
BY WALLACE CARROLL Limited Press Staff Correspondent

BY WALLACE CARROLL
 United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, December IS. - (UP) - Earl Baldwin, regarded as the most influential conservative figure ir Great Britain, is backing Anthony Eden,s demand for firmer for eign policy, it was understood today
 Baldwin was Neville Chamber 1ain's predecessor as prime minis ter. It was he who handled the abdication crisis, he who caused a world sensation when, as national leader, he announced that Great Britain,s frontier henceforth was the German Rhine, not the English Channel.
 It was Baldwin who caused the German Nazi boycott of banquet only Tuesday night at which Cham berlain criticized German news papers for "heaping vituperation" on him - 'the most respected of our statesmen" 'Now, it was under stood, Baldwin is quietly coaching Eden in the demand that the Brit ish government firm up it's policy to- ward the dictator nations.
 Baldwin Has Influence
 Baldwin has been careful, as a conservative parsonage, to avoid taking any open stand against Chamberlain. But his influence is great throughout the country, and his own quiet pressure combined with growing open opposition to Chamberlain'S "appeasement" policy among liberals. Laborites and dissl- dent conservatives.
 It was recalled also that it was Baldwin who brought Eden to the front and named, at 38 years of age, to the key post of secretary ot state for foreign affairs a post which Eden resigned in protest against Chamberlain's policy of negotiating, and as Eden saw it. over-conciliat- ing, Adolf Hitler and Benito Musso- lini.
 With Eden went Vscount Cran- borne, parliamentary underSecre- tary of state of the foreign office, another of the young men in train- ing to succeed to leadership of the country. Later went a third, Alfred Duff Cooper, first lord of the ad- miralty, because he could not stomach" the Munich agreement for dismemberment of Czechoslovakia.
 Another Stage Monday
 The defnand for firmer policy toward Hitler and Mussolini will reach another stage Monday. The labor party will challenge them, in the house of commons, the entire con iuct of Chamberla:n's foreign policy. Hugh Dalton, in behalf Of tho labor party, is to move: That this house has no confidence in the foreign policy of his majesty's gov ernment." This is the first direct chsllenge to Chamberlain'S entire policy. Other opposition motions of censure against the government have been on particular aspects Of his strategy and tactics. The motion was so worded that if it passed - it could not, conceivably, because of the conservative majority 1t would force the governments resig- nation. The labor party, bent on making the debate on the motion a full dress affair, named Arthur Greenwood, Albert Alexander, Sir Charles Edwards and Major Gle ment Attlee, leader of the party, as supporters of Dalton's motion.
 CenSure Motion
 A censure motion, coming imme- diately after the Nazi boycott of a dinner at which the prime minis ter of Great Britain was the chief speaker, was calculated to mark a long step forward in Soliditylng the foreign situation. Chamberlain in his speech Tuesday night dealt a blow to Italian Fascists when he said that Britain's relations with France were so close as to pass beyond mere legal obligations. Yes terday, in the house of commons. he said that the government would view with grace concern any vio- lation of Italy's pledge to maintain the present status in the Mediter- ranean.
 Pressure On Chamberlain
 There is a further development which is expected to put pressure on Chamberlain to take stronger stand against the dictators. The Duchess of Athou is to oppose an official conservative candidate at a bye-Election at Perth, Scotland, December 21. A conservative mem- Der of the house of commons for Is years, she broke with the govern ment by condemning the Munich agreement and any attempt to grant belligerent status to the Spanish Nationalists. She is fighting to retain her seat, as an independent on that platform, and political ex- perts say she is almost certain to win which would be dierct rebuke for Chamberlain.
 Chamberlain is true to his ap- peasement policy, and intends to visit Mussolini in mid-January un- der that policy. It became less and less certain that he would be able fn affor oyo1y no,noccio,oc ,Io1acc tbn