BRITISH MINISTRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1942, Page 4

BRITISH MINISTRY

SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES

SIR S. CRIPPS LEAVES WAR CABINET TAKING OVER AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION. MR EDEN TO LEAD HOUSE OF COMMONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright/ LONDON, November 22. Important changes are announced ih the British Cabinet. Viscount Cranborne (Secretary for the Colonies) becomes Lord Privy Seal, in place of Sir Stafford Cripps, who becomes Minister of Aircraft Production, in succession to Colonel Llewellyn, who is going to Washington as British Resident Minister. Mr Oliver Stanley, Minister of War Production, becomes Secretary of State for the Colonies. Lord Cranborne will be Government leader in the House of Lords and Sir Stafford Cripps will be succeeded as leader of the House of Commons by the Foreign Secretary (Nr Anthony Eden). Mr Eden retains the post of Foreign Secretary. In taking up his departmental post Sir Stafford Cripps leaves the War Cabinet and the vacancy in that body is to be filled by Mr Herbert Morrison, Minister of National Security. Mr Churchill, in a letter to Sir Stafford Cripps, said: “Although it might al first sight appear that by. leaving your present post for a great administrative post you would be stepping down in the political hierarchy, I know you would not be influenced by that. This proposal is conceived solely to meet a most serious war need.” Sir Stafford Cripps, replying, said he felt it would be inapropriate for him to remain a member of the War Cabinet in view of the relationship between the Ministers of Production and Supply.