STRONG TEAM

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 66, 9 November 1931, Page 3

STRONG TEAM

, (British Official Wireless)

BRITISH CABINET #MR. MacDONALD'S SELECTION WELCOMED BY BRITISH PRESS MEN WITH WIDE EXPERIENCE

^ RUGBY, Saturday. The' impression regar ding Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's new Cabinet as expressed to-day in tbe Press comments is that it constitutes a strong wellbalaneed team, calculated to Vork harmoniously together; that it maintains the national character, and that it *is specially well equipped to attack successfully the eeonomic and finahcial problems, both domestie and int.ernational, which confront it. While the national team comprises men'withwide experience, the Prime Minister has evidently striven to give •. a chance to the younger men, and his endeavour in this respect has been facilitated by the action of Sir Aus- ; ten, Chamberlain, Lord Reading, Lord Ceeil and Lord Amulree, who were members in the previous administras tion, standing aside. The new Cabinet consists of 20 meipbers, and thus reverts to the customary size, for it was found that : the Cabinet of ten, which existed n before the dissolution was an insufficieiitly large staff for all the comk. mittees which will have to be set up. The last Labour Government had 21 Cabinet Ministers. The minor Ministerial appointments [c will be- announced after the Prime Minister returns to London from Lossiemouth. !, The "Times" says the Prime Minister has chosen an "experie-nced team whose acceptance of the ideal of national co-operation is beyond doubt _ and who are broadly agreed upon the nature of the tasks to be accomplished | and who have all agreed to approach them with minds unbiased by the past. I The choice may be accepted with gen- [ eral satisfaction by the nation, and '$ with confidence in its honesty and 3 efficiency by the world at large."