NEW CABINET

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 6 August 1945, Page 5

NEW CABINET

FULL LIST OF MINISTERS SOME SURPRISE APPOINTMENTS London, August 4. It was announced from Downing Street that the following will comprise the Cabinet: The Prime Minister, Mr Attlee; the Lord President of the Council, Mr Herbert Morrison; the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin: the Lord Privy Seal, Mr Arthur Greenwood; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr. Hugh Dalton; the President of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps; the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr A. V. Alexander; the Lord Chancellor, Lord Jowitt; the Secretaries of State —Home, Mr J. C. Ede; India and Burma, Mr F. W. Pethick-Lawrence; Colonies, Mr G. H. Hall; War, Mr J. Lawson; Air, Viscount Stansgate; Scotland, Mr J. Westwood; Ministers—Labour, Mr G. Isaacs; Fuel, Mr E. Shinwell; Education, Miss Ellen Wilkinson; Health, Mr A .Bevan: and Agriculture. Mr T. Williams. His; Majesty has approved the following appointments:— Minister of Works, Mr G. TomlinMinister of Town and Country Planning, Mr L. Silkin. | Minister of National Insurance, Mr Griffiths. Minister of Civil Aviation, Lord Winster. Minister of Information, Mr E. J. Williams. Postmaster-General, The Earl of Listowel. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr J. B. Hynd. Attorney-General, Mr Hartley ShawCross. Solicitor-General, Mr Frank Soskice. Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Mr W. J. Edwards. liome Secretary, Mr Chuter Ede. Dominion Secretary, Lord Addison. Secretary fo r India, Mr F. W. Peth-ick-Lawrence. Colonial Secretary, Mr G. H. Hall. First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr A. V. Alexander. Secretary of state for War, Mr J. J. Lawson. Secretary of State for Air, Viscount Stansgate. Minister of Labour and National Ser_ vice, Mr George Isaacs. Minister of Education, Miss Ellen Wilkinson. Minister of Health, Mr Aneurin Bevan. Minister of Agriculture, Mr To m Williams. Minister of Supply and Aircraft Production, Mr J. Wilmot. Minister of War Transport, Mr Alfred Barnes. Minister of Food, Sir Ben Smith. Minister of Fuel, Mr E. Shinwell. Mini s t er Q f State, Mr Noel Baker. Minister of Pensions, Mr Wilfred Paling. Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury. Mr William Whiteley. I *f cr ® tar y of state for Scotland, Mr J. Westwood. Additional appointments are: Financial Secretary, Mr John Dugdale; Parliamentary Under-Secretaries State and the Air Ministry, Mr John Strachey; Colonial Office, Mr A. C. Jones; Dominions, Mr John Parker; Foreign Office, Mr Hector McNeil; Home Office, Mr G. H. Oliver; India and Burma Office, Mr Arthur Henderson; Scottish Office (jointly), Messrs George Buchanan and Thomas Fraser. Parliamentary Secretaries —Agriculture and Fisheries, the Earl of Huntingdon; Education, Mr Arthur Jenkins; Food, Dr. Edith Summerskill; Fuel and Power, Mr William Foster: Health, Mr C. W. Key; Labour, Mr Nees Edwards; National Insurance, Mr G. £. Lindly; Pensions, Mrs Jenny Adamson; Supply and Aircraft Production, Messrs William Leonard and Arthur Woodburn; Board of Trade, Mr Ellis Smith; Overseas Trade, Professor H. A. Marquand; War Transport, Mr G. R. Strauss; Works, Mr J. H. Wilson. TreasuryFinancial Secretary, Mr W. G. Hall; Lords Commissioners, Messrs R. J. Taylor and Joseph Henderson. War Office— Under-Secretary of State, Lord Nathan; Financial Secretary, Mr F. J. Bellenger. Royal Household—Captain Gentleman at Arms, Lord Ammon; Captain Yeoman of the Guard, Lord Walkden; Treasurer, Mr George Mathers; Comptroller, Mr Arthur Pearson. The Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Mr W. J. Edwards, according to the “Sunday Express,” was a stoker on a warship to the date of his election during the war. He represents Whitechapel and is the first sailor from the lower deck to hold political office in the Admiralty. He has been a popular and effective back-bencher and is now entitled to a general salute when he steps on the quarterdeck. His Majesty approved of a barony for Mr Pethick-Lawrence, and made Messrs Isaacs, Bevan, Barnes and Shinwell Privy Councillors. Lord Addison will be the leader of the House of Lords. Mr William Whiteley, who’ was joint Government Chief Whip in the Coalition Government, has been appointed the Labour Party’s Chief Whip, at Mr Attlee's special request.

RADICAL TRANSFORMATION

COMPOSITION OF PARLIAMENT

, London, August 5. The radical transformation of Parliament stands out from the new membership,- says the “Observer’s” special correspondent. For the first time in the long history of the British Parliament its predominant elements are not vest: ed property or sectional interests Right or Left. For the first time it is a truly national Parliament.

On the Right, land, finance and industry are reduced from a full third to a mere eighth of the membership of the House of Commons. On the other hand, in the Parliamentary. Labour Party, the trade union officials hold has been broken They Tns H UP ( B i 4 o° f the total mem bers of 404, about 19 per cent., the significance of which is revealed by a comparison with previous Parliaments. Old interests are replaced by liberal professions, by technicians, by men drawn from the proletariat and daily life The ?hZf o n‘l lOn °f the Labour majority, therefore, marks a striking innovation.