IMPORTANT CHANGES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 238, 21 July 1941, Page 6

IMPORTANT CHANGES

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. NEW POST FOR MR BUTLER. MR DUFF COOPER’S MISSION IN EAST. POLICY OF CO-ORDINATION. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. Important changes in the British Government are announced from No. 10 Downing Street. Mr Brendan Bracken (Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister) becomes Minister of Information in place of Mr A. Duff Cooper, who becomes Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Mr R. A. Butler (Foreign Under-Secre-tary) becomes President of the Board oi' 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 in Lancaster, becomes Pay-master-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 Ernes j; Thurtle, becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information, replacing Mr Harold Nicholson, who lias been appointed Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Sir Hugh Sealye becomes additional Under-Secretary for Air-.

Mr Duff Cooper 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 them how these arrangements can be made more effective. Lord Hankey, as Pay-master-General, will continue to perform the special duties now assigned to him, which include the chairmanship of a number of War Cabinet committees. Captain Harold Balfour (Undersecretary for Air), Mr Tom Williams (Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture) and Major Lloyd George (Parliamentary Secretary to tlie Minister for Food) become Privy Councillors.—British Official Wireless.