RECONSTRUCTION OF CABINET

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25307, 6 October 1947, Page 7

RECONSTRUCTION OF CABINET

DIFFICULTIES FACED BY MR ATTLEE REPORTED RELUCTANCE OF MINISTERS (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, October 4. The Prime Minister (Mr Attlee) is reported to be encountering considerable difficulty in the reconstruction of his Cabinet. The diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that certain senior Ministers who had agreed t© take new post? have become restive on discovering that their activities were to be co-ordinated in groups under other Ministers. They are reluctant, the correspondent says, to take • on new posts unless they have responsibility only to the Cabinet as a whole. The Minister of Fuel (Mr £. Shinwell) and the Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan) are still expected to be involved in the changes, but both would rather leave the Government than accept a status junior to that which they hold at present. Mr Attlee is also said to be having trouble in finding suitable replacements for the junior Ministers he wishes to move. * EMPIRE FINANCIAL CONFERENCE FINAL SESSION TO-DAY (Special Correspondent N-Z.PA-) <Rte. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON. October 4The final session of the wealth financial talks will be held at ‘he Treasury oh Monday evening, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer •pr. Hugh Dalton) is expected to address the full conference. The leader of the New Zealand delegation (Mr Leicester Webb) said the conference could be regarded from i r«ew Zealand’s point of view as satisfactory on the whole.”