RAISED TO CABINET RANK
m SIR RUFUS ISAACS. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copy right, LONDON. 12th June. The admission of the AttorneyGeneral (Sir Rufuts Isaacs) io the Cabinet is unprecedented, and is regarded as a peusonal distinction marking the special services rendered by Sir Rufus Isa'ics, notably in connection wilh Oho Labour troubles. [It is a nile generally followed that the holder of tho Attorney-Generalship becomes Lord Chancellor^ in the event of a vacancy, and it is significant, therefore, that the elevation of Sir Rufus Isaacs synchronies with the appointment of Lord Haldsine to the Lord Chancellorship. It may be that Cnbinet rank has been voluntarily conferred on Sir Rufus as a solatium, or it may be that he demanded it as a condition of waiving hi 6 claim to the Chancellorship. Sir Rufus is an exceptionally able lawyer : from the moment when he took silk, in 1898. he jumped into a foremost place in_ the ranks of leading counsel. _ Armed with a keen, witty manner, which conceals tho meaning of the most insidious npts. for unwary witnesses, lip is a notnble cross-pxaminer. and in the eyes of the public he holds Uip place once occupied by Sir Charles Russell. He w;« born in London in 1860.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 140, 13 June 1912, Page 7
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207RAISED TO CABINET RANK Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 140, 13 June 1912, Page 7
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