WAR CABINET CHANGES

Evening Star, Issue 23699, 5 October 1940, Page 11

WAR CABINET CHANGES

WELCOMED BY BRITISH PRESS TRIBUTES TO MR CHAMBERLAIN’S SERVICES (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 4. (Received October 6, at 9.28 a.m.) The Press generally approves the Cabinet changes. The ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ says: “Mr Churchill clearly had in mind the necessity of watchful adjustment to the changing needs of war and the value of reinforcing the Government by fresh minds.” The changes are also valued as a further example of the advantages a democracy enjoys in the conduct of war in being able to make such changes in 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 tributes to his long services to the State. The ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ says no lure of ambition and no self-seeking ever sullied his -actions.

The entire Press unites in recognition of his sincerity. ‘ The Times,’ dealing with past controversies over his foreign policy, says: 11 There is strong and irrefutable defence for the actions ho took in a situation not of his making, but inherited from a decade of international failure.”

The ‘Manchester Guardian’ says: 11 Whatever we may think about Mr Chamberlain’s tragic miscalculations of policy there is no man who desired more passionately that we win this war.” Mr Bevin’s promotion to the War Cabinet is welcomed on all sides. Another appointment particularly welcomed is that of Viscount Granborne to the'Dominions Office. Mr Morrison’s translation to the Home Office and Ministry of Home Security is felt to inspire confidence that the problems of bombed civilians and their homes will be energetically tackled.