CABINET CHANGES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 264, 5 October 1940, Page 7

CABINET CHANGES

GENERAL APPROVAL.

MR CHAMBERLAIN’S WORK

(United Press Association —Copyright.)

(British. Official Wireless.) (Rec. 9 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 4. The Press generally approves the Cabinet changes. The Daily Telegraph says: “Mr Churchill cleariy had in mind the necessity for watchful adjustment to the changing needs of the war and the value of reinforcing the Government by fresh minds.”

As a further example of the advantages which Democracy enjoys in the conduct of war in being able to make such changes in the personnel of the Government as the conditions require without the danger of discrediting the Government as a whole, the Daily Herald points out that public confidence in the main structure of the Government is unshaken. .

Mr Chamberlain’s retirement is a occasion for tributes to his long services to the State. The Daily Telegraph says no lure of ambition and no self-seeking ever sullied his actions.

The entire Press unites in recognition of his sincerity-.

The Times, dealing with past con troversies over his foreign policy, says there is a strong and irrefutable defence for the actions he took in a situation not of his making but inherited from a decade of international failure. The Manchester Guardian says: “Whatever we may think about Mr Chamberlain in the past and his tragic miscalculations of policy, there is no man who desires more passionately that we win this war.”

Mr Ernest Devin’s promotion to the .War Cabinet is welcomed on all sides. Another appointment particularly welcomed is that of Eord Cranbourne to the Dominions Office. Mr Herbert Morrison’s translation to the Home Office and the Ministry of Homo Security is felt to inspire confidence that the problems of bombed civilians and their homes will be energetically tackled.