CABINET CHANGES
SOME NEW APPOINTMENTS AN ASSISTANT FOREIGN MINISTER, (ADS, AND NJi. CABLE ABBN. AND BEBIEH.) (Received July 20, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 19th July. The Press Bureau reports : Sir Jj. Worthington Evans has been appointed to stftceed Lord Robert Cecil as Minister of Blockade,
i Lord Robert Cecil has been appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Major-General Seely has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary, to act as Deputy-Minister of Munitions. Mr. Waldorf Astor is appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Ministry (in succession to Mr. J. R. Clyne|). Owing to the increasing burdens imposed on the Foreign Secretary, Mr. A. J. Balfour expressed the wish that Lord Robert Cecil, hitherto ■■ Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, should take a larger and more responsible part in t.Uc ,„ n rt „f thf. KorfiiVn Office.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 18, 20 July 1918, Page 8
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