BRITISH APPOINTMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 October 1939, Page 8

BRITISH APPOINTMENTS

CRITICISED BY PRESS. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, October 15. All sections of’ the Press criticise the Government’s economic and financial planning, the chief complaint being that it had not yet realised the magnitude of the task. Sir John Simon’s appointment as chairman of the Committee of Economic Co-ordination is considered fantastic. Some papers comment that he has not the slightest qualifications for the job. Sir John Gilmour’s appointment as Minister for Shipping has similarly disappointed the Press and the City. There is an undercurrent of feeling that, as the war proceeds, there will be no room in key jobs for “political hacks” and those whose talents aie merely forensic. CENSORSHIP BUREAU. RUGBY, October 16. Sir Walter Monckton, who became Director of the General Press Censorship Bureau, when it ceased to form part of the Ministry of Information, has appointed Mr. Walter Fish, former Editor of the “Daily Mail,” .as honorary Press adviser to Admiral Osborne, Director of the Censorship Bureau.