NEW MINISTERS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 195, 14 May 1940, Page 8

NEW MINISTERS

Further Appointments By Mr. Churchill

SIR KINGSLEY WOOD TO TREASURY Duff Cooper And Herbert Morrison Included (British Official Wireless and Press Assn.) LONDON, May 12. The Prime Minister, ■ Mr. Churchill, has announced the appointment of the following additional Ministers: — Sir John Simon, Lord Chancellor. Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir John Anderson, Home Secretary and Alinister of Home Security. Lord Lloyd, Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Sir Andrew Duncan, President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Supply. Mr. A. Duff Cooper, Minister ot Information.

The principal members of the new Government wore sworn in at a Privy Council held by the King shortly after midday at Buckingham Palace. Sir Samuel Hoare and Mr. Oliver Stanley had audiences of the King at Buckingham Palace this morning, when they took leave of His Majesty on relinquishing their appointments as Secretary of State for Air and Secretary of State for War. Mr. Churchill had his second audience of the King since he became Prime Minister, at Buckingham Palace this evening. x As a preliminary to tomorrows meeting of the Labour Party Conference, at which Mr. Attlee and Mr. Greenwood will speak, the Labour executives—the Parliamentary Labour Party and the General Council of the Trades Union Council—met this afternoon at Bournemouth and approved firn following resolution: “This meeting of these national executives records its approval of the decision taken by the leaders and the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party in their efforts to strengthen the machinery of the Government in this country for the purpose of bringing the war to a successful conclusion.”

In the changes made by Mr. Churchill in appointing the new War Cabinet and his Ministers, those who continue their portfolios are Lord Halifax as Foreign Secretary, Sir John Anderson, as Homo Secretary and Minister of Home Security, and Sir Andrew Duncan, as President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Chamberlain replaces Earl Stanhope as Lord President of the Council. Sir John Simon replaces Viscount Caldecote as Lord Chancellor. Following are brief outlines of the careers of the new appointees:— Mr. R. Attlee. . Mr. Attlee, who Iras been Leader of tlie Opposition Labour Party since Bjoo, wn.s born in 1883 <md educated at Haileybury College and Oxford, where lie took his .11. A. At the. age of 23 be was a declared Imperialist and Tariff.’ Itelonncr, lint lie soon afterward joined the Fabian Society and worked witli Sidney mil Beatrice Webb in the poor law-campaign. In the Great War he saw service at .Gallipoli and in France. He entered Parliament as member for Stepney tn November, 11922. He was Under-Secre-tary for War in the first, Labour Government, and was appointed to _the Indian Statutory Commission of 1927. lie was also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1930-31. Mr. Arthur Greenwood. Mr. Arthur Greenwood, who is u 9 years of age, was first returned for Nelson and Colne in 1922, and was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health in Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s first Government. lie was Minister of Health in 1929-31, and is an acknowledged expert on health questions. During the war lie served under Dr. Addison at the Ministry of Reconstruction. .Mr. Greenwood was formerly a lecturer on economies at Leeds, and for n number of years has directed the Labour Party s Research and Information Department, of which he is secretary. Sir Archibald Sinclair. Sir Archibald. Sinclair, who was horn in 1890, entered Parliament in 1922 as a Liberal member for a Scottish seat, and Ims been Leader of the Liberal Oppqsi tion since 1935. He was personal military secretary Io (lie Secretary of State for'War from 1919 to 1921, private secretary to the Secretary of State for Colonies, 1921-22; Chief Liberal Whip, 1930-31; and Secretary of State for Scotland, 1931-32. He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and entered the Army in 1910. Mr. Anthony Eden. Mr. Anthony Eden, who replaces Mr. Oliver Stanley, is the youngest Minister

holding a major portfolio, being -13 years of age. lie has had a distinguished scholastic, military and political career, ami has been a Conservative member of Parliament since 1923. He was Secretary of Stale for Foreign Affairs from 1935 to 1938, and has been Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs since 1939. Mr. A. V. Alexander. .Mr. A. V. Alexander, who was 55 rears old this month, has been Cooperative member for the Hillsborough division of Sheffield since 1935, and previously represented it from 1922 to 1931. lie is secretary of the Parliamentary Committe of the Co-operative Congress. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in 1924, and First Lord of the Admiralty in the Labour Government of 1929-31. In recent years he has generally been the spokesman of the Labour Opposition on naval affairs. I'or many years he was a Baptist lay preacher. He served with the army in the last war, finishing with the rank of captain. Sir Kingsley Wood. Sir Kingsley Wood, who replaces Sir John Simon, was Secretary of State for Air in Mr. Chamberlain’s first War Cabinet, later vacating this post in favour of Sir Samuel Ilottre. He is the soli of a Wesleyan minister, was born in 1881, and was admitted as a solicitor in 1903. IL? Ims been the Conservative member lor Woolwich West since 1918. He was lor many years connected with the Ministry of Health and was in charge of the department from 1935 to 1938, having previously been Postmaster-General, 1931-30, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education in 1931. Mr. A. Duff Cooper. Mr. A. Duff Cooper replaces Sir John Reith. He was born in 1891). He served in the European War, gaining the D.S.O. and being mentioned in dispatches. Later he was iit the Foreign Ollice, where he was regarded as an inspired draughtsman. He entered the House of Commons in 192-1. In 1928-29 and also in 1931-34 he was Financial Secretary at the War Ollice. lie was Financial Secretary to the 'l'reasurv in 1935; Secretary lor War in 1935-37,'and First Lord of the Admiralty in 1937-38. Lord Lloyd. Lord Llovd. who replaces Mr. Malcolm MacDonald,’ is GO years old, and is a member of the well-known banking firm of the same mime, and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. lie was in Parliament ns a Conservative member from 1910 to 1918 and from 1924 to 1925, when he was raised to the peerage. Alter serving in the Near East in the last war, during which he was decorated, he was appointed Governor of Bombay from 1918 to 1923, and High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan from 1925 to 1929. Lord Lloyd is president of the Navy League. Mr. Herbert Morrison. Mr. Herbert Morrison, who replaces Dr. Leslie Burgin, is 52 years old, and entered Parliament in 192.",. lie Ims been editor of the ‘'London News." the Labour Party organ in London, lb- became Minister of Transport after the general election of 1929. In 1928-29 he was chairman of the National Labour Party.