BRITISH CABINET.

Western Star, 11 June 1935, Page 3

BRITISH CABINET.

NATIONAL BODY. MR BALDWIN AT HEAD. NEW FOREIGN MINISTER. RUGBY, June 7. Mr Ramsav MacDonald, in company with the King's private secretary, Lord Wig-ram, drove from the Prime Minis, ter's official residence, No. 10, Downing Street, to Buckingham Palace and was immediately received in audience by the King to whom he tendered his resignation from the office of Prime Minister, which he has held continuously l for six years. He remained with the King for about one.hour, and shortly after the audience concluded Mr StanIcy Baldwin was summoned to the Palace and accepted an invitation to take over for the third time the office of Prime Minister.

Later it was officially announced that the King had approved of the following Cabinet appointments : Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury—Mr Stanley Baldwin. , ; Loid President of the Council—Mr Ramsay MacDonald. Chancellor of the Exchequer—Mr Neville Chamberlain. Lord Chancellor—Viscount Hailsham.

Secietary of State for Home Affairs and Deputy-Leader of the House of Commons—Sir John Simon,

Secretary for' Foreign Affairs —Sir Samuel Hoare.

Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords—The Marquess of Londonderry. Secretary for War—Viscount Halifax. Secretary for Dominion Affairs —Mr J. H Thomas.

Secretary for Air—Sir Philip Cun-liffe-Lister.

Secretary for India—The Marquess of Zetland.

Secretary for Scotland—Sir Godfrey Collins.

Secretary for the Colouies—Mr Malcolm MacDonald.

President of the Board of Trade—Mr Walter Runiman.

First Lord of the Admiralty—Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell. Minister without portfolio for the League v of Nations—Mr Anthony Eden, Minister without portfolio—Lord Eustace Percy. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries —Mr Walter Elliot.

President of the Board of Education —Mi- Oliver Stanley. 'Minister of Health—Sir H. Kingsley Wood. Minister for Labour—Mr Ernest Brown.

First Commissioner of Works —Mr William Ormsby-Gore.

New Postmaster-General,

Major G. C. Tryon has been appointed Postmaster-General. This office does not carry Cabinet rank. The King has approved tha,t the dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom be conferred upon Sir E. Hilton Young, formerly Minister of Health. Other Ministers who have retired from Cabinet Office and are not included in the new Cabinet are Lord Sankey, who was Lord Chancellor, and Sir John Gilmour, who was Home Secretary. Former members of the Government who now receive Cabinet rank are Mr Malcolm MacDonald, son of the former Prime Minister and formerly UnderSecretary for Dominion Affairs, Mr Anthony Eden, formerly Lord Privy Seal, and Mr Ernest Brown, Secretey of the Mines Department in the late Government.

SPEECH BY MR BALDWIN. TRIBUTE TO MR MACDONALD. NEED FOR STABLE GOVERNMENT. LONDON, June 8. In his first speech as Prime Minister Mr Baldwin at a National Government demonstration in Worcestershire paid a glowing tribute to Mr M.acDonald's

courage iu carrying on despite failing eyesight and insomnia. He added that he and Mr MacDonald ha\e merely exchanged places and collaboration would continue. After reieriing to conditions in other gieat countries Mr Baldwin said that Britain enjoyed a stability that must be jealously guarded. Referring to the Italo.Abyssinian dispute, he said it was causing anxiety to the remainder of Europe. "We are suddenly confronted with those difficulties, possibly dangers, rendering more imperative the stability and strength of other governments," said Mr Baldwin. "We cannot elect the governments of other countries, but we can elect onr own. It should be sufficiently strong to show the world that the mass of Britons is behind the Government. It is to strengthen the power of dealing with these events that I made certain changes at the Foreign Office, strengthening the Ministerial personnel and rendering collaboration with the League and Geneva easier than hitherto "

Mr. Baldwin concluded : "I hope it is not insular pride, but I feel that Britain, mor.e than any country is the guardian and trustee for democracy. W T e must push forward with .maintaining the ee. cui ity of oui- own people while lighting :or a limitation of armaments, bringing Europe either piecemeal or wholly into collective security. Those- arc the ends I desire, and in that spirit I accepted from his Majesty the weightiest burden that <an be laid on the shoulders of an Englishman."

ONE DAY'S IMPRISONMENT.

WOMAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY CONVICTED OF THEFT. Rose Schreoir, aged 68, a widow, who pleaded guilty at Marylebou© Police Court, London, to stealing a handbag from a woman in an Oxford Street .'hop, was stated to be without a country.

The police stated that for some years the woman's late husband reported toi the Dutch authorities, but there was doubt about her nationality. The magistrate said he understood that Mrs Schreolf was in poor circumstances, and? that im one could deport her becausei no one knew the country to which she belonged. He sentenced her to onel day's imprisonment and told her that she must obey the laws of England.

RELIEF

'We are going to the dogs,' said the talkative man in th c railway carriage. 'The country is bankrupt, and the outlook is blacker than over. Is there, I ask, one bright spot anywhere?' 'There is,' replied the victim emphatically. 'And, pray, what is it?' asked the bore.

'That I'm getting out at the next stcition J'