THE NEW CABINET

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19598, 10 June 1935, Page 7

THE NEW CABINET

REMARKABLE EXPEDITION

CHANGE-OVER IN 21 HOURS.

LIBERALS & CONSERVATIVES GAIN.

(Omclal Wireless.) (Received June 10, 11.0 a.m.)

RUGBY, June 9

The reconstruction of the Cabinet was effeoted with remarkable expedition and minimum excitement. During the afternoon Mr Ramsay MacDonald was addressing the House of Commons on defence questions as Prime Minister. On leaving the House he drove to Buckingham Palaoej and within the next two and a-half hours all the formalities In connection with the ohange-over were completed, and the new Prime Minister had Issued the Cabinet list. The Liberal-Nationals have an additional seat owing to the advancement of Mr Ernest Brown to be Minister of Labour, and the Conservatives also have one additional Cabinet Minister.

SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY.

MR RAMSAY MacDONALD

ACTIVITIES OF DEFENCE FORCES

(Official Wireless.) (Received June 10, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY, June 9. It is understood the late Prime Minister, whose office of Lord President of the Council ), a sinecure, will have

-special responsibility for the co-or-dination of the activities of the defence forces. lie will he chairman of the sub-com-mittee of the Committee of Imperial defence. GENERAL ELECTION. EXPECTED IN THE AUTUMN/ 1 United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received June 10 a.m.) LONDON, June 8. It is now taken for granted that thore will be a general election in the autumn.

LONDON PRESS OPINION.

SPIRIT OF NATIONAL UNION

DOMINATION BY CONSERVATIVES. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, June 8. Commenting on the reconstructed Cabinet the Daffy Telegraph says: Mr Baldwin is the embodiment of the spirit of national union. His choice of a Cabinet will not escape the criticism that the Infusion of new blood is comparatively small. Many people had hoped that Mr Eden's successes would have secured for him the Foreign Office portfolio. The News Chronicle says it sees little difference between llie new and Hie old Governments except that the Conservatives’ domination is slightly more definitely acknowledgedThe Daily Herald describes llie changes merely as polities. It says the Conservatives, having tasted blood, will want the remaining offices. The Times says: Mr Baldwin’s new Government maintains the national principle to the full extent of its predecessor, and it is definitely stronger in detail. Ending of the Farce. “ Tiie ending of the farce,” is how llie Leader ol' Hie Opposition, Mr George Lansbury, describes Hie new Government. lie adds: “I am glad it is now acknowledged that the country is really ruled by a Conservative Government.”

OPINION IN FRANCE.

MR MacDONALD CRITICISED. HOPE IN HIM PROVED FALSE. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. PARIS, June 7. “ Pertlnax,” commenting on Mr MacDonald's retirement in L’Echo de Paris, remarks that during the past year Air MacDonald had seemed a complaisant-, disillusioned puppet and a familiar figure at houses of the great in London .All the hope placed in him hail proved false. His European projects had failed and his practical, moderate Socialism had negligible results. Le Journal, on the contrary, pays a tribute to Mr MacDonald's graceful exit from politic**