25 FEBRUARY 1938, Page 6

Another question which urgently demands an answer, but is unlikely

to get it, is where one or two Sunday papers got information which at that time could hardly have been known to anyone but Cabinet Ministers. The Sunday Express, for example, appeared with the following flaring headlines : EDEN OFFERS TO RESIGN.

The Real Story Behind the Saturday Cabinet, followed by a detailed, and as the event proved entirely accurate, account of what had taken place at to Downing Street on Saturday afternoon. No one will blame the Sunday Express for that ; it was a notable journalistic success. But the inference that there has been a bad Cabinet leakage is strong and I hear a particular natty:. associated with it —with what justification I do not profess to know.

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