NEW GOVERNMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 7

NEW GOVERNMENT

MR. CHURCHILL'S CHOICE

Rec. 11.15 a.m. RUGBY, May 25. The names of the members of the new "Caretaker Government" pending the General Election were issued officially in London tonight. They are: Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill. Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Anderson. Lord President of the Council, Lord Woolton. Lord Privy Seal, Lord Beaverbrook. President of the Board of Trade and Minister of Production, Captain Oliver Lyttelton. Minister of Labour and National Service, Mr. Richard A. Butler. Home Secretary, Sir Donald Sommervillc. Secretary of State for India and Burma, Mr. Leopold Amery. Colonial Secretary, Colonel Oliver Stanley. First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Brendan Bracken. Secretary of "War, Sir J. Grigg. Secretary for Air, Captain Harold Macmillan. Secretary of State for Scotland, the Earl of Rosebery. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Mr. R. S. Hudson. Lord Chancellor, Lord Simon. Minister of Education, Mi\ Richard Law. Minister of Health, Mr. H. U. Willink. Minister of Supply, Mr. A. R. Duncan. Minister of Aircraft Production, Mr. Ernest Brown. Minister of Works, Mr. Duncan Sandys. Minister of Food, Colonel Llewellin. Minister of War Transport, Lord Leathers. Minister of Fuel and Power, Major Lloyd George. Minister of Town and Country Planning, Mr. W. S. Morrison. Minister of National Insurance, Mr. L. Hore-Belisha. Minister of Information, Mr. Geoffrey William Lloyd. Postmaster-General, Captain Crookshank. Minister of State, Mr. William Mabanc. ■ Minister Resident in West Africa, Captain Harold Balfour. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Sir Arthur Salter. Paymaster-General, Lord Cherwell. Minister of Pensions, Sir Walter Womersley. . Attorney-General, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe. t „ Lord Advocate, Captain Scott CunSir Walter Monck-Solicitor-General. for Scotland, Sir David King Murray. Lord Woolton will have the general responsibility of reconstruction, but Sir Arthur Salter will have the responsibility in matters affecting European reconstruction. Lord Cranborne will be Leader of the House of Lords and Mr. Eden Leader of the House of Commons. The Ministeries of Home Security and Economic Warfare are being wound up as a result of the end of the war in Europe, and the positions of Resident Ministers at Allied Headquarters in the Mediterranean and in Washington (for supply) will not be filled Ministerially. The Home Office will be responsible for any residuary civil defence functions, and the remaining functions of the Ministry of Economic Warfare will be transferred to the Foreign Office.—B.O.W.