SEVERAL CHANGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 6

SEVERAL CHANGES

MADE IN BRITISH CABINET NEW MINISTER OF INFORMATION. MR BUTLER TAKES EDUCATION PORTFOLIO. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.45 p.m.) RUGBY, July 20. Important changes in the British Government are announced from No. 10 Downing Street. Mr Brendan (Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister) becomes Minister of Information, in place of Mr A. Duff Cooper, who becomes Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- . caster. Mr R. A. ..Butler, ..Foreign Undersecretary, becomes President of the Board of Education, replacing Mr H. Ramsbotham, who becomes chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board and is made a peer. Lord Hankey, who was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, becomes Paymaster-General. Mr R. K. Law, Financial Secretary to the War Office, becomes Foreign Under-Secretary and is succeeded by Mr Duncan Sandys, Mr Churchill’s son-in-law. A Labour member, Mr Ernest Thurtle, becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information, replacing Mr Harold Nicholson, who is appointed Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Sir Hugh Sealye becomes an additional Air Under-Secretary. Mr Duff Coopei’ is proceeding to the Far East, charged with the task of examining, on behalf of the War Cabinet, the present arrangements for consultation and co-ordination between the various British authorities, military, administrative and political, in those regions, and reporting to the War Cabinet how these arrangements can be made more effective. Lord Hankey, as Paymaster-Gen-eral, will continue to perforin the special duties now assigned to him, which include the chairmanship of a number of War Cabinet committees. Captain Harold Balfour, Air Undersecretary, Mr Tom Williams, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, and Major Lloyd George, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food, become Privy Councillors.