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Southland Times, Issue 25737, 30 July 1945, Page 5

he was not strong. Sir Stafford Cripps may get on well there. Certainly, a new mind was needed.

With Sir William Jowitt as Lord Chancelloi’ Labour is showing that it can give distinction to the woolsack. Mr Attlee’s first list is a good beginning.” The Times says: “The choice of Mr Bevin as Foreign Secretary will be generally welcomed. The views which he expressed on foreign policy, especially in his recent speech at Blackpool, promise a practical approach to affairs supported by the known resources of a forceful personality. The transition will be made easier by the fact that no spectacular break in foreign policy is to be contemplated. The pronouncements of the parties on foreign affairs have shown no divergencies of principle. They are, indeed, for the most part dictated by the plain necessities of the situation in which the country finds itself at the close of a victorious but exacting war.” The Times expresses the opinion that the Labour Government is not likely to be any less zealous than the last coalition in promoting international acceptance and application of the principle of trusteeship in the administration of colonial and backward territories or in furthering schemes for the world-wide improvement of material standards of living inaugurated at the Hot Springs Conference and now being worked out by the organization which then came to birth.

The Daily Telegraph says that Mr Bevin’s appointment is the most interesting of those so far announced, and adds: “Though Mr Bevin’s experience may be far more limited than that of Mr Eden he is of large calibre, mentally as well as physically. He did on Mr Churchill’s testimony ‘a fine job’ during the war and he is undoubtedly the best choice available for what will continue to be one of the most onerous tasks during the coming difficult years.”