POLITICS IN BRITAIN.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20177, 4 March 1931, Page 9

POLITICS IN BRITAIN.

RESIGNATION FROM ■ ■■: CABINET. PRESIDENT OF BOARD OP , EDUCATION. (BEITISB OmOIAX. WJJWMfBP.) (Received March 3rd, 6.6 p.m.) RUGBY, March 2. Sir Charles Trevelyan, President of tho Board of Education, has resigned. Mr H. B. Lees-Smith, PostmasterGeneral, has been appointed to succeed Sir Charles Trevelyan. " Major C. R. Attlee, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has been appointed Postmaster-General. Sir Charles Trevelyan was the author of the Education Bill raising the school leaving age, which was defeated in the House of Lords. REASON FOR RESIGNATION. DISSATISFACTION WITH THE GOVERNMENT. (Received March 3rd, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, March 2. Sir Charles Trevelyan's resignation was the direct outcome of the rejection by the House of Lords of his Education Bill, but he indicates dissatisfaction in other directions in his letter to Mr Ramsay Mac Donald. in which he states that he has realised for some time that he is greatly out of sympathy with the general ptaUcy. He declares that the present disastrous condition of trade require* big Socialist measures rather than painful and ineffective economies. "As time proceeds the situation gets worse," he said, "and we show lees intention to rely on Socialism as the .salvation of the country." Both sides of the House regard the resignation as evidence of dissatisfaction with the Government, which is not confined to back benchers. Sir Charles Trevelyan; caused a minor sensation last year by attacking Harrow, his old school, declaring that it was a school, merely fo* the rich, where boys believed in brawn,'nqt brains.

Sir Charles Philips Treyelyan was president of the Board of Eduoatiqn in the first Labour Government in 1924, and agnin since 1929. He has boen member for Central Newcastle since 1922. He was born in 1870, and was educated at Harrow, also Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. with 2nd class Historical Tripos, 1892. He was secretary to Lord Crewe when the latter was Lord* Lieutenant of Ireland,-1892>-98. He was a member of the.London School Board from 1896-97; Parliamentary Charity Commissioner 1906-08. He was Liberal member of Parliament for Ellami Division, West- Biding of Yorkshire. 1809-1018,. and was Parliamentary Secretary, Board of. Education, from 190814, but resigned fronv the Governmont (is a protest against the policy which involved Britain in the war. He was a member of - the Medical Research , Council, J928-29. • Mr Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith, M,A„ D-Som bas been PostmasterCeneral sinco 1929. Ho has represented Keighlev Division of Yorkshire from 1922-23, and since 1934. He was born in India in 1878. He-was educated for the Army and obtained a cadetehip at the Royal Military Academy in 1895, but resigned ~W* and went to Quoen's College, ofcford, where he graduated. M. A. He has: been associated with Ruskin College, Oxford. from it# foundation in 1 1899, and wag chairman of the executive committee from 1907 t0'1909. He WW a ■ member of the Liberal Party, representing Northampton from 1910 to 1918. In the latter year he contested th© Don Valley Division of Yorkshire as an Independent Radical ana joined the Labpur Party the next year. He is -the author-of a. nurnbor of .books ' with India and constitutional Clement Richard Attlce. who for' the last year has' been "Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster/and, who has been the representative- of the Limehoupe Division sinoe. 1928,/ was born in 1883. He was educated at Haileybury College, and at Umyemty College, Oxford, graduaiW wit|h 2nd class honours, 1 Moden» History/ GaUed to the Bar, secretary, Toynb'ee Hall, Tutor and Lefcfcurer in Social Science at London School of Economics. 1913-28'} ■ served , in«the war (Gajlipolu Mesopotamia, and .France), 1914-19, retirme with the raftk of Major r Mayor of Stepney, 1919-20; Alderman since 1919|, mom* w of the Fabia.ri Society, and Inoederidfent Labour Party since- 1908; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leadelr of the Opposition, 192224. 1 Under-Secretary for War, 1924; member of the Indian Statutory Commission, 1927; ./ ' EMPIRE CRUSADERS.

LORD STONEHAVEN'S; - REFERENCE. (Receiveid March 3rd, ■ 7 p.Hfc) '>* liONDON,' March. 2. ; Referring to Empire Crusaders as "particular forms of inibrohes,*' Lord Stonehaven told the- Oxford.University i Conservative Association that 'Lord BeaVerbrook and Lord would be ridiculed in Australia. "However ridiculous their policy, it la dan- - serous not to recognise this'dissentxon, ninety-nine per, cent, of which is imposed of personal spite and enmity,", he added." In, the North of and,in Scotland there is'none of the animosity to Mr Stanley Baldwin, which Lord .and Lord , Boaverbrook are fostering^ 1 TRADES DISPUTES BILL. THE GOVERNMENT'S POSITION.

(Received March 3rd, 1 7,6 p.m.) LONDON, March 2. In the House of Commons!, Sir Austen Chamberlain enquired whether the. Government proposed to take actionem view of the. defeat in the 'Standing Committee of the Trades Bill. Jklr Ramsay Mac Donald said that the Committee was continuing its work, and still considering the point on which the Liberal amendment was oarried. ' ■