THE COLONIAL OFFICE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 101, 22 January 1921, Page 7

THE COLONIAL OFFICE

MR. CHURCHILL’S APPOINTMENT OPINIONS OF THE “MANCHESTER GUARDIAN ” By T.l.rrxph—Preu AMociatlon—Copyright Landon, January 20. In an article dealing with the Colonial Secretaryship, the "Manchester Guardian” says: "Ministerialists are making a nervous effort to excuse Mr. Churchill’s appointment as Colonial Secretary, even before it is announced. Mr. Churchill showed a considerable measure of constructive imagination and administrative energy, as in the rescue of Ihe tanks from the waste-paper basket of officialism; but administration of a more patient sort is required at the ColonialOffice. The Churchill head is always humming with possible master strokes of original and audacious action, and always dangerously. Hurry will bring into Imperial affairs the get-rich-quick temperament which in business makes a few millionaires and many bankrupts. The . colonies do not need to be the scenes of gigantic flutters. What is wanted is the administration the elder Chamberlain gave the colonies.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CHANGE OF TITLES SUGGESTED. (Rec. January 22, 0.20 a.m.) London, January 20. The "Times," in a leader, says: “The term 'Colonial Office’ is reminiscent of less spacious days in the history of the Dominions, and suggests the bygone colonial system. Why not 'lmperial Office’ and ‘Secretary of State for Imperial Affairs.’ The change would be a visible sign of the new spirit in British dealings with the Dominions, which was ■ plain’ under Lord Milner. It is understood that Mr. Churchill will have charge of Egypt.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.