WELCOME BACK! INTELLIGENCE

Conservative MPs welcomed Sir AnthonY Eden back to the House of Commons yester- day with cool, calculated politeness.

Daily Mirror, December 18. Premier gets an affable welcome.

Daily Telegraph, December 18. The reception could perhaps be described as dutiful rather than overwhelming. 7'he Times. December 18. The reception was typically Tory and just right.—Daily Sketch, December 18.

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A few Government supporters stood up.

Daily Mail, December 18.

Three or four back benchers rose.

Daily Telegraph, December 18. One or two Tory M Ps leapt to their feet. Daily Mirror. December 18. One MP rose, a lonely, cheering figure. News Chronicle, December 18.

Thirty or forty of them waved their order Npers.—Daily Mail, December 18. Twenty or thirty waved their order papers' Randolph Churchill. December 18. Four or five fluttered their order papers. News Chronicle, December 18.

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Cheering lasted for perhaps 20 seconds.

Daily Mirror, December 18. Eight seconds of Tory cheering greeted Sir Anthony.—Daily Herald, Dtcember 18. Skeleton cheer greets Eden.

News Chronicle, December 18. They gave a deep-throated cheer.

Randolph Churchill, December 18,

Nothing in the Prime Minister's manner suggested nervousness.

Daily Mail, December 18. Looking bronzed and jumpy. Daily Express, December 18.