CABINET CHANGES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 196, 21 July 1941, Page 6

CABINET CHANGES

MR DUFF-COOPER’S TASK

(United Press Association —Copyright) (Roc. 1.45 p.m.) RUGBY, July 20. The following important changes In the BritisJi Government are announced from No. 10 Downing Street: Mr Brendan Bracken (Parliamentary Secretary to the Primo Minister) becomes Minister of Information in plaeo of Mr A. Duff Cooper, who becomes. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Dir R. A. Butler (Foreign Undersecretary) becomes president of the Board of Education, replacing Mr H. Ramsbotham, who becomes chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board and is made a peer. Lord Hankey, who was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, becomes Paymaster-General.

Mr R. K. Law (Financial Secretary to the War Office) becomes Foreign Under-Secretary and is succeeded by Mr'Duncan Sandys, Mr Churchill’s son-in-law.

A Labour member, Mr Ernest Tlitirtle, becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information, replacing Mr Harold Nicholson, who is appointed a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corpora tio n. Sir Hugh Soalyo becomes additional Air Under-Secretary.

Mr Duff Cooper is proceeding to the Far East, charged with the task of examining on behalf of the AVar Cabinet the present arrangements for consultation and co-ordination between the various British authorities—military, administrative, and political—in those regions, and reporting to them how these arrangements can be made moro effective.

Lord Hankey, as Paymaster-Gen-eral, will continue to perform the special duties now assigned to him, which include the chairmanship of a number of War Cabinet committees. Captain Jlarold Balfour (Air Undersecretary), Mr Tom Williams (Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture), and Major Lloyd George (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food) becoino Privy Councillors.