REGIONAL DEFENCES
COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED
IN BRITAIN
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, April 18,
A number of regional commissioners under the civil defence scheme, whose appointments are announced today, include many leading figures in business and politics.
The Lord Privy Seal and Minister of Civil Defence, Sir John Anderson, deprecated the description of the com? missioners as "dictators" for their regions, but he made it clear that in a national emergency and in particular in the event of interruption to communications caused by enemy action important duties and responsibilities would devolve on them from the central Government.
The commissioners include: For the south-eastern region, Sir Auckland Geddes; for the north-eastern region, Lord Harlech; for the north-western region, Sir Warren Fisher, who is retiring from the Treasury in October; for the north midland region, Lord Trent; for the eastern region, Sir William Spens, former vice-chancellor of Oxford University; and for the southern region, Mr. Harold Butler, till recently Director of the International Labour Office in Geneva and designated as the first principal of Nuffield College, Oxford.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 9
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