BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1924, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAHLE ASSOCIATION. LABOUR’S MINISTRY. LONDON. Jan. 22. It is officially announced that Dir Ramsay MacDonald has formed a Ministry. The following arc the holders of the leading portfolios:— Prime Minister and .Minister of Foreign Affairs. Rt. Hon. .T. Ramsay MacDonald.

Secretary of Slate lor the Colonies Rt. Hon J. If. Thomas. Secretary of State for India. Rt Hon Sir Sydney Ollivor.

First Lord of the Admiral.v. Ind Chelmsford.

Secretary for War, ID. Hon Stepb.m Walsh (former Parliamentary Secretary to the local Government lloarlt. M.P., for Mee Division. T.aiieasbiiv. Lord Chancellor. Lord HaMaoe.

Chancellor of the Exchequer. Rt. Hon Phillip Snowden. Lord Privy Seal and Deputy Lender of the House of Commons. ID. Ihm J. R. dynes. Lord President of the Con »d, Lrul

l’armoor. Minister in charge of Horn- 'Mm-e. Rt. Hon Arthur Henderson. Air Minister, Brigadier General

Thompson. President of the. Board of Trade. Rt. Hon Sidney Webb. Minister of Health. IU Hon Mr WheatleyMinister of Agriculture. Rt. Hon Noel Buxton. Secretary for Scotland, William

Adamson. Minister of Education, lit. Hon C. Trevelyan. Minister of Labour, Rt. Hon Mr Thomas Shaw. Postmaster-General. Rt. Hon Mr TTartshorne. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Rt. Hon Josiah C. Wedgewood. D.S.O. First Commissioner of Yorks, .U. Hon F. W. Jo weft. CABINET FORMED K'RLt*. LONDON. Jan. 22. The “Daily Herald” says it is thought Mi MacDonald had practical!- completed his Cabinet before the week-end. r-v : ~UEZS OF THE NEW “"ministry. NONE ONE Jan. 23. Out of the 20 new Ministers, only seven are Trade Union officials. Oi the other thirteen, half are ivceilt accessions to the party. Lord Chelmsford’s appointmc.it can e as a complete, surprise. He had imvr r before appeared on a Labour i l.i.foim at- all. Rt. Hon Mr Wheatley represents the Civile extremists. General the Rt. Hon. Christopher Thomson is the new Air Minister. He ;is a sapper officer with extensive military and diplomatic experience. He wrote a critical account of the Balkan war In 1918 for the War Office. Later he was military attache at Belgrade and Sofia, and combated German p'"> paganda in South Eastern E'u-ope He was present at the Paris ‘ .wiifereii- ■>'. and is the author of the biok “-.-i 1 Europe’s Suicide.” LABOUR'S PEERS. LONDON- Doc. 22. The appointments of Ivord Chelmsford and Lord Parmoor were well received. The “Daily Telegraph” says that there are some members averse to a proposal to create new Peers, lift tnc general feeling is that this is inevahlc in the present circumstances. A request was made that, in main tabling appointments, the Trade Union side of the movement should lie fully recognised, hut Air MacDonald gavo no pledge to that effect. A suggestion was made that the salaries of the members of the Cabinet should he reduced, hut this met with no encouragement. Emphasis was laid on the fact that tTfe Ministry must ream) a decision on public policy. Ihe Party must not expect to he consulted in advance. Mr A. Henderson, Sir S. Oliver, and Air Thomson are all without seats, but it is understood that Sir S. Oliver and certainly Air C. B. Thompson will receive peerages.

TO FIGHT NATIONALISATION.

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 22

A meeting of Liberal Commoners unanimously passed a resolution declaring. inter alia, their steadfast determination to resist every attempt to destroy private enterprise and the establishment of the C'ocialisation of industry.

FRENCH PRESS COMMENT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, Jan. 22. The Extreme Right newspapers foresee nothing hut ill irom the advent ol the Socialist Government in Britain. The Extreme Left hail the event as a triumph for Democracy, opening a new era. The Centre and Government organs confine themselves to the hope that things will go all right.