THE WAR CABINET

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 7

THE WAR CABINET

APPARENTLY ABANDONED

Rec. 12.40 p.m. LONDON, May 25. I "Mr. Churchill is apparently abandoning the War Cabinet as such," says : the Press Association's political i roundsman, commenting on the new Cabinet. "The Cabinet hitherto consisted of eight specially selected Ministers, but as these have no longer been singled out in the announcement, it is to be presumed that although the war against Japan is still, in progress, the Premier is reverting to the prewar practice of a full Cabinet for all occasions." "The Times," in an editorial regarding the new Cabinet, says: "This is evidently not a caretaker administration but a carefully balanced team which is prepared to seek from the electorate authority to proceed with a long-term course of policy. That the !War Cabinet should disappear was to [be expected, because the reason for its existence was the state of emergency. Arduous as the struggle against Japan may be, reconstitution of civil and domestic departments can and should be given an increasing share of Cabinet's time." "The first instalment of Mr. Churchill's caretaker Cabinet is full of surprises," says the Press Association's lobby correspondent. "The most unexpected change is that of Mr. Butler, who leaves the present comparatively placid and academic backwaters of the Ministry of Education for the turbu,lent, controversial, and extremely arduous Ministry of Labour."