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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 21, 1941.
Cabinet Changes May Not Satisfy Opposition
(By Reuter's Political Correspondent)
THE CHANGES WHICH THE PRIME MINISTER HAS MADE IN THE COMPOSI- TION OF THE GOVERNMENT AFFECT POSTS OUTSIDE THE WAR CABINET. THE PROMOTION OF MR. R. A. BUTLER TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCA- TION, IS A RECOGNITION OF THE WORK HE HAS PERFORMED AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE AS UNDER-SECRETARY.
Mr. Brendon Bracken rises from the post of Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, to be Minister of Informa- tion. He will be the fourth holder of the post which has only been in existence since the
UNIDENTIFIED
BOMBERS OVER SAIGON
Two
unidentified bombers were seen flying over Saigon for 20 minutes yesterday morning, says a Reu- ter report from the Indo-China capital.
The bombers were flying at 15,000 feet, the report adds.
LENINGRAD
war began. This is his first ministerial post. HEAVILY
The appointment of Me Duff Sinclair, the Air Minister, since Couper to be Chancellor of the last year. He is a Liberal. Duchy ol Lancaster from the
Ministry of Jaformation, and who] No Substantial Effect
2. 10W proceeding to the Part
East to examine on the spot on
Colonel Harvie Watt's appoint.
FORTIFIED
behalf of the War Cabinet the ment as Parliamentary Private t Leningrad's
present pouation in that area, is Secretary to the Prime Minister
defence
in line with other recent appoint- will be welcomed at Westmin-system is described as one iter. He was a popular Junior of the most remarkable in
ments.
It will be recalled tant Lord Harlech, a former Cabinet Minis- ter, was sent 40 south Africa as
High Commissioner, Mr Malcolm Medonald to Canada as Hith
Authority On Far East
Whip.
conferred on Caplain Balfour, Mr.i
their work in
Parlament. ΔΗ
on the
cast by
the
the whole world by the Privy Councilorships have been Stockholm newspaper Tom Williams and Major Lloyd: "Nya Daglit Allehanda," George and are in recognition of and quoted by the Vichy Commissioner, Capt, Oliver Lyt- telton to Caira as Minister at three are popular under-secret- | News agency. State and Sir Ronald Cross to aries. especially Major Lloyd The writer declares that this Australia as High Commissioner. George, who is spokesman for the defensive system comprises 821 Ministry of Food in Commons. extensive fortified territory. bounded on the west by the river The appointments, as a whole. Narva, Luke Peipus and the river represent no substantial changing Velikaya, the the composition of the Govern- Valdau Mountains, and on the
Lake Ladoga ment and will have little parlia- | north by mentare effect bevond some possi-Gulf of Finland. ble criticismn which has been fore- Leningrad's fortifications,
·hadowed in political circles since says, extend as far as Pleskau. the changes were in prospect.
The fortified belt along the Reuter.
Gulf of Finland is stated to be 50 miles in depth, and all these fortified positions have been recently strengthened. WITHIN THIS AREA ACCOM- MODATION IS PROVIDED FOR 5,000 AREOPLANES. REUTER. ¦
Mr. Dulf Cooper's appointment |
The importance emphasizes Prime Minister attaches to effec- five co-ordination in all unport- |
between the various ant places authorities, military, adminstra- tive and political.
Mr. Duff Cooper has been both First Lord of the Admiral. alty and Secretary of State for War, and is consequently well. equipped to deal with problems affecting the Far East,
pust
Lord Hankey, who becomes Paymaster-General - a sinecure will continue his import- 2+111 work which includes the chairmanship of a number of Cabinet committees.
MOSCOW
ON POLISH
and the
RELATIONS NAZI PLAN
"The political groups
Mr. R. K. Law. Son of the now leading Poland, par- OF ATTACK
former Prime Minister, Mr. Bonar
Law, leaves the War Office to be- ticularly General Sikor-
rume Under-Secretary of State in ski, have always under-
the Foreign Office.
stood that Germany is ON TURKEY
He is succeeded as Financial Poland's enemy,' de-
Secretary to the War Office
by clares
Mr. Duncan Sandys who is the
he
a press bulletin, German plans to seize son-in-law of the Prime Minister issued by the Information the Dardanelles are the He has been in the Army since Bureau in Moscow.
the war broke out and has attain-
ed the
L'eut-Colonel. · rank of
only Poland, it is stated, can
reason for the continued of Bul- This will be his Arst minis- exist as a dependent state if it concentration terial experience..
stands on friendly terms with garian and German Russia. The bulletin expresses confidence that the Polish people troops
Mr. Ernest Thurtle
on
the Turkish will not be fooled by Hitler's new frontier, according to Another newscomer to the Trea-plan to enact the role of "saviour sury bench is Mr. Ernest Thur- of Poland" by creating a so-call- well-informed diplomatic tle (Labour) who becomes parli ed independnet state bereft of circles in Ankara. amentary Secretary to the Minis Pomerania, Silesia and Gdynia.
Soviet public opinion, it try of Information. He has been a fearless speaker in debate and stated, is following with ever-last night said that according to is a champion of unpopular causes. lasting interest and friendship, Ankara reports, the German For- the Polish nation's fight against eign Ministry has already clabor- Hitlerism and oppression.
Reu- ated plans for the reorganisation
of the Balkans,
Mr. Harold Nicholson, who was Parliamentary Secretary to
the ter. Ministry of Information, has been appointed a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation. It is not expected that he will have to vacate his seat in Parlia- ment.
Mr. Ramsbotham leaves the office of President of the Broad of Education to become Chairman of the Unemployment Assistance
ARTILLERY
ACTIVITY
is
The Moscow radio commentator
These include the formation of new Macedonian states, con- Bicting of Western and Eastern Thrace, as well as the Dar-. danelics region.”
...
Italian circ es in Ankara, it was said, have expressed disappoint- ment at this plan, considering it contrary to Hitler's promises that
tions in the Mediterranean.
AT TOBRUK should hold the key post-
Board and receives a peerage, APART FROM ARTILLERY Reuter, This appointment is for a period ACTIVITY ON BOTH SIDES NOTHING OF IM- of seven years and carries with it THERE IS
TACTFUL SILENCE
IN BERLIN.
n salary of £5,000 per annum. PORTANCE TO REPORT: FROM The appointment of Sir Hugh THE TOBRUK AREA, SAID
́ ́additoinal Parila. YESTERDAY'S CAIRO G.H.Q. (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Beely to be an. ¡mentary Under-Secretary of COMMUNIQUE;
State to the Air Ministry brings In the frontier area our patrols The German Foreign Office con- in recovering and tinues to refrain from comment on that Ministry into fine with the succeeded other Service departments who towing an enemy armoured car the new Japanese Cabinet, indi- cating nothing will be sald "un- already have two undor-ascre- damaged in action. taries or their equivalent. In Abyssinia, our occupation til the attitude of the Cabinet is He has been Parliamentary of the northern area is continu- finally expressed."-International
News Service. Private Secretary to Sir Archibald ing smoothly-Router.
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