LABOUR TO GOVERN

Evening Star, Issue 20194, 6 June 1929, Page 9

LABOUR TO GOVERN

MR RAMSAY MACDONALD AT WINDSOR LIST OF MINISTERS SUBMITTED TO KING Press Association—By Telegraph— I Copyright LONDON, June 5. (Received June (5, at 9-10 a.ra.) Mr Ramsay MacDonald had an audience with the King at Windsor this morning, and accepted His Majesty’s invitation to form a Government. ' Sitting up in a chair, His Mnejsty perused the list of nominees im office which Mr MacDonald submitted. The interview lasted for a quarter ol an hour. Probably the late Ministers will hand over their seals of office to His Majesty in a lew, days, and His Majesty himself will redistribute them to their successors.—Australian Press AssociationUnited Service. CABINET TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph— Copyright. RUGBY', June 5. (Received Junet G, at 11 a.in.) It is considered probable that Mr MacDonald’s list ol Caebinet Minisicis will not be prepared lor publication unit Hater in the week, and that the junior Ministerial posts will not be filled until next week. Alter he has completed these and other necessary arrangements, the new Prime Minister hopes to take a few days’ rest prior lo the reassembling of Parliament. He will go to Lofsiemonth, his Scottish home. Air MacDonald was the centre ol an enthusiastic demonstration from Ins supporters when he drove this alternoon to a joint meeting of (he executives of the Parliamentary Labour Party and the National Labour Party. OXFORD UNIVERSITY RETURNS. TWO CONSERVATIVES ELECTED. LONDON, June 5. (Received June G, at 12.5 p.m.) The Oxford University election, in which Proportional Representation was used, resulted in the election of the Conservatives .Lord Hugh Cecil and Professor Sir Charles Oman. Lord Hugh Cecil secured G,012 votes in the first preference, Professor Gilbert Murrav 3.2(i, and Sir Charles Oman 2,170. Lord Cecil’s ' surplus of 2,190 was transferred to the others, which resulted: Sir Charles Oman 4,112, MiGilbert Murray (Independent) 3,529. — Australian Press Association-United Service. [Lord Hugh Cecil and Sir Charles Oman represented Oxford U niversity in the last Parliament.] LABOUR’S FOREI6K BOLICY PEACE AND DISARMAMENT. PARIS, June 5. (Received Juno G, at 1.1 a.m.) Interviewed by a reporter of the ‘ Petit Parisian,’ Mr Ramsay MacDonald said be hoped immediately to get into touch with Mr Hoover regarding interallied debts and disarmament, ami to resume discussions on a new basis. Ho intended to go right ahead with a policy of disarmament and peace. He. appealed for general cooperation in Europe to accomplish this task, and said ho counted above all on France’s co-operation. The interviewer suggested a trilateral agreement between Britain, France, and Germany to secure peace in Europe, but Air MacDonald, with an impatient gesture, said; “There is no question of an agreement, or alliance. Wo want to start altogether a now era of European co-operation, with no more rivalries, no more understandings for or against one another, no more secret diplomacy. What we want is fresh air, light, and goodwill among peoples. To this wo shall devote our energies till we achieve a decisive final result.”—Australian Press AssociationUnited ServiceMR MACDONALD’S ANNOUNCEMENT. LONDON, June 5. (Received June G, at 10,2(1 a.m.) Returning from Windsor Mr MacDonald attended a joint meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Executive and tho National Executive of the Labour Party at the trade union headquarters, London. Air MacDonald announced his appointment as Prime Minister. A lull meeting of tho Parliamentary Labour Party has been summoned for June 27. —Australian Press Association. DOUBLE BURDEN. A FRIENDLY WARNING. LONDON, June 5. ‘The Times ’ hopes that Air Ramsay MacDonald will not for the second time attempt to combine tiie offices ol Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, as the double burden is manifestly intolerable. The India Office will he more important for the next few years than it has been for a lifetime, and the Secretary for India should be the most courageous, level-headed, and openminded man available.—Australian Press Association. “PEACE AND EMPLOYMENT GOVERNMENT.” LONDON, June o. The ‘ Daily Herald ’ suggests that Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s Ministry will be known as the “ Peace and Employment- Government.” One Minister, whatever his official title may be, will in fact bo Minister of Unemployment, and bo will be charged with planning schemes of work and co-ordinating the activities and getting a move on. The ‘ Herald ’ suggests that the celerity with which the 1924 Administration was formed will be repeated, and that Air MacDonald will submit practically a

full list of Ministers to Ills Majesty tomorrow. Tlio paper hints at the possibility of Mr MacDonald departing from precedent, and not living at Downing street. Me .is tremendously attached to his Hampstead home, where ho keeps his hooks, pictures, and treasured possessions, and it is probable that he will not like the gloom of the formal “ nnliomelike. ” official residence.—Australian Press Association. REFLECTIONS ON THE POLL. LONDON, June 5. ‘The. Times,’ in a lending article, says: “The dismissal of Mr Baldwin's Ministry was emphatic enough, hut the mood in which the change was made was neither angry nor contemptuous; it can rather be likened to an unprejudiced experiment in which a sufficient number of the electors had resolved to exercise the privilege ot giving another party a turn. Mr Baldwin remains in popular estimation the most generally trusted and acceptable personality in political life. While his party lias lost, as yet no ground it cannot recover, it has stored up resources which will survive defeat.”—London 1 Times ’ Gable.