CANDID CRITIC

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 188, 11 August 1941, Page 7

CANDID CRITIC

Labour Members And Recent

Cabinet Changes

MR. (HIR(HIM;S Blf; TASK Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON". Aug. 10. "The Colonies and Dominions are i becoming a dump for Government j failures, said Mr. E. Shinwell. M.P. I' Lab.. Seaham Harboun in a speech j referring to the recent Cabinet changes. He added: -.Mr. Churchill doesn t sack his failures, he promotes them. A Cabinet Minister's best j chance of promotion is to make a | blunder then he gets a real opportunity of becoming a big shot." | Mr. Shinwell criticised Mr. I Churchill for taking too much on his j own shoulders. lie said: "He wants to be I'rimc Minister and everything I else. Xo man here is big enough to I take on the whole ta.-k of administration. There is no room for dictators. Our ta.-k is to fight dictatorship, not to encourage it.'' Mr. Shinwell asked that the pledge to aid Russia be fulfilled—whether by persistent attacks, diver-ion on the western front, or hv an attack on Itaiy. Referring to recent criticism- of , the Government in the House of Commons. Mr. Shinwell said this was designed rather to give strength to the Prime Minister than to weaken him. "It is folly." he said. ; "to ignore the considerable and grow- ' ing criticism of the Government's j policy. It is not so much directed acain.-t Mr. Churchill as again=t the j personnel and organisation-. of the Government as a whole.''