FURTHER CHANGES IN BRITISH CABINET

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1942, Page 6

FURTHER CHANGES IN BRITISH CABINET

WAR OFFICE HEAD

Unprecedented Step Taken By Mr. Churchill

LONDON, Feb. 22. Further changes are announced in the British Cabinet as follows:— Secretary for War.—Sir James Grigg, Permanent Under-Secre-tary of State for War, replacing Captain D. Margesson. Minister of Aircraft Production. Colonel Llewellin, formerly President of the Board of Trade, replacing Colonel C. T. Moore-Brabazon. Secretary of the Colonies.—Viscount Cranborne, formerly Secretary for the Dominions, replacing Lord Moyne. President of the Board of Trade. Dr. Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare, replacing Colonel Llewellin. Sir James Grigg has been Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War since 1939. and is 51 years of age. It is the first time in "which a permanent under-secretar\ r has been promoted to be head of the War Office. Sir James Grigg. who served with the artillery in the last war, has a reputation of possessing a firstrate brain (he was a mathematical scholar of note at Cambridge), of being a strong man, able to make decisions and stand by them. He also knows the army thoroughly and understands it.

The new Minister was educated at Bournemouth School and St. John's College, Cambridge. He acted as principal private secretary to succeeding Chancellors of the Exchequer from 1921 to 1930. After being chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue from 1930 to 1934, he was finance member of the Government of India until taking up the appointment at the War Office in 1939.