Another Minister who is steadily increasing his reputa- tion is
Mr. Anthony Eden. Day after day he has to answer a series of questions on issues of the utmost delicacy, such as the precise status of the British Legation in Addis Ababa, or the extent to which Great Britain is prepared to guarantee the integrity of Czechoslovakia and Austria. He gives his carefully prepared reply, and then is faced with a volley of supplementary questions which in the time of Lord Salisbury were not permitted in foreign affairs. but now are a recognised opportunity for the Opposition to embarrass the Government. On any one of them Mr. Eden might commit a blunder which would have far-reaching consequences in the present critical condition of international relationships. He never falters. To each of them he gives a comprehensive, suave, and, when the situation allows it, humorous, reply.
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