GENERAL APPROVAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 84, 5 October 1940, Page 10

GENERAL APPROVAL

CABINET CHANGES

BRITISH PRESS COMMENT

TRIBUTES TO MR. CHAMBERLAIN

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received October 5, 10 a.m.)

RUGBY, October 4. The Press generally approves the Cabinet changes.

The "Daily Telegraph" says: "Mr. Churchill clearly had in mind the necessity for watchful adjustment to the changing needs of the war and the value of reinforcing the Government by fresh minds." It also refers to the change as a further example of the advantages democracy enjoys in the conduct of war in being able to make su-h changes in the personnel of the Government as conditions require without danger of discrediting the Government as a whole.

The "Daily Herald" points out that public confidence in the main structure of the Government is unshaken.

Mr. Chamberlain's retirement is the occasion for a tribute to his long services to the State.

The "Daily Telegraph" says that no lure of ambition and no self-seeking have ever sullied Mr. Chamberlain's actions. The, entire Press unites in recognition of his sincerity. "-The Times," dealing with past controversies over his foreign policy, says there is a strong and irrefutable defence for the actions he . took in a situation which was not of his making but which he inherited from a decade of international failure.

The "Manchester Guardian" says: "Whatever we may think about Mr. Chamberlain in ihe past and his tragic miscalculations of policy, there' is no man who has desired more passionately that we should win this war."

Mr. Bevin's promotion to the War Cabinet is welcomed on all sides. Another appointment which is particularly welcomed is that of Lord Cranbourne to the Dominions Office. Mr. Morrison's translation to the Home Office and the Ministry of Home Security is felt to inspire confidence that the problems of bombed civilians and their homes will be tackled energetically.