FOREIGN SECRETARY.
CHANGE IN THE POST. MR CHURCHILL TO TAKE OVER. LONDON, October 3. It is taken as a- foregone conclusion that the Prime Minister (Mr Churchill) will take over the portfolio of-Foreign Secretary,, now held by Lord Halifax. Lord Halifax has become Leader of the House of. Lords, in place of Lord Caldecote, who has been appointed Lord Chief Justice. Lord Halifax will be assisted in his new duties as Leader of the House of Lords' by Lord Snell, Captain of the Gentlemen at Arms, who will continue as deputy-leader of the House of Lords. From Canada come generous tributes to Mr Chamberlain. The Montreal “Star” states that ha isClikely .to. live in history as the mail who saved Britain and the Empire as his policy gave Britain time to prepare. German commentators on the changes are united in a resolve to see signs Of disaster. According to them, Mr Morrison’s chief distinction has been as a champion of Labour, so ardent a champion, indeed, that he became a thorn in the side of British industry. If that it so, it is difficult to see why he w&s included in the War Cabinet. In German eyes, his successor as Minister for Supply (Sir Andrew Duncan) is the reverse, for he will oppress the workers in the interests of big industry. The only way to qualify for a kind word from Germany is, apparently to retire. Informed United States comment takes the opposite view, and says that the inclusion of Mr Ernest Bevin, the Minister for Labour, and Mr Herbert Morrison, new Minister for Home Security, in the Wlar Cabinet and particularly Lord Cranborne’s return to prominence, are well merited. An American commentator points out that Britain’s war morale is, if possible, stronger than it was a month ago and much stronger than it was six months ago. Any signs of political ferment in Britain were not. the signs of weak morale, but the opposite. An important conclusion is- that one of the German objectives in bombing London is to produce a political revolution against war.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 308, 5 October 1940, Page 5
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