CHANGES NEEDED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1941, Page 5

CHANGES NEEDED

IN BRITISH CABINET ACCORDING TO SOME CRITICS. TALK OF CUTTING OUT DEAD WOOD. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 8. Speaking at a meeting attended by the Minister of Supply, Lord Beaverbrook, at Manchester, Mr J. Hastings, of Salford, said: “The dead wood should be cut out of the Government,which should be prepared to sacrifice all sections of the community. When that is done the workers are prepared to toil and sweat in the production of armaments, and then man them and shed their blood.” , , i<sj |j |

Mr T. L. Horabin, M.P. (Liberal),' speaking elsewhere, said: “Mr Churchill's great qualities of leadership are as evident as ever, but the people are beginning to feel that his great gifts end in words and not deeds. He is being pulled down by an old and jaded Minister who is associated with the disastrous policies of the past. How can people have confidence in a Cabinet in which Sir Kingsley Wood remains?

“The present Government cannot win the war, because the bosses of all three parties are included in proportion to the party strength. To win the war we must have Ministers selected for their capacity, ruthlessness and drive. Unless Mr Churchill faces the issue he will.not only imperil his own position but ’also our chances of ultimate victory.”