BRITISH CABINET
NEW APPOINTMENTS
Rec. 9 a.m
LONDON. November 22.
The following new Ministerial appointments are announced: —Minister of Works. Mr. Duncan Sandys, replacing Lord Portal; Minister Resident in the Middle East, Sir Edward Grigg, in succession to the late Lord Moyne; Minister Resident in West Africa, Mr. Harold Balfour, in succession to Lord Swinton; Under-Sercetary for Air, Mr. R. A. Brabner; Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply, Mr. John Wilmot. All are members of the House of Commons.
It is also announced that Lord Selborne is resigning as soon as arrangements are made to wind up the Ministry of Economic Warfare, possibly by December 31.
. The announcement added that the Allied armed forces on the frontiers of Germany are maintaining a blockade of Germany almost entirely, therefore the scope of the Ministry of Economic Warfare has greatly declined. The blockade of Japan will be pursued with full vigour till her final defeat, but the volume of work no longer justifies the retention of a separate Ministry, and arrangements are being made to transfer the remaining work and necessary staff to other departments.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1944, Page 7
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