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FIVE LABOUR MINISTERS HAND IN RESIGNATIONS Biggest Government Reshuffle In Two Years Mr. Shinwell Out

Of Cabinet

London, Oct. 7.

The reshuffle of the Labour Ministry, the biggest since its accession two years ago, commenced with the Prime Minister's announcement to- day of the resignations of five senior Ministers. Foremost of these were the Minister of Fuel and

Mr.

Senator's

Ruhr Mine

Summing Up Scheme May

New York, Oct. 7:

Buropean Communists are taking advantage of the food shortage to promote disorder and further their programme of expansion, according

Senator Barkley, member of the Senate sub-Committes ob Foreign Relations,

Power, Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, rumours of

Speaking over the N.B.C. satwork whose removal had already aroused a storm of

after tour of 20 European coun- protest from the extreme Left, and the War

tries, Senator Barkley urged Ameri- Minister, Mr. Frederick Bellenger, who is to can to read food to hungry Europe * an "investment for human life be succeeded by Mr. Shinwell-without, how-

and an investment in democracy and ever, a place in the Cabinet.

ilbeny", The Minister of Supply, Mr. | Labour Party for years,

"Commonium feeds on hungry, on John Wilmot, whose departure Woodburn won his seat in Parlid-despale and no chaos," he said...... was predicted because he was ment in 1930, and during the war United Fress reported to be opposed

the held the posts of Joint Parlia socialisation of the iron and steel mentary Secretary to the Minis industry, has also resigned try of Supply and Aircraft Pro- leaves the Ministry.

tuction and Parliamentary Private as Secretary to the Secretary

Scotland. He is a trade union- Mr. Hat.

to

The Cabinet changes are follows: 1716

Minister

of War,

Mr.

and

for

Frederick Bellenger, and the Mr. George Buchanan, 57, the Minister of Supply,

John new Minister of Pensions, s

former. Under-Secretary for Scot- the signed.

Lord Privy Seal, Lord In-land and on active trade unionist. He was elected to Parliament in man, resigned. Succeeded by Vin count Addison, who has left the 1922.

Re- Ministry of Commonwealth

Jations.

The

of

Lord Addison, 78, who leaves the Ministry Commonwealth

1937.

of

Lock-Out Order Disobeyed

Rome, Oct. 7.

Be Modified

London, Oct. 7. Britain and the United States axe expected to inform· France, Belgiumi, Holland and Lazem- boars within the next week that they are willing to modify some of the details of the Anglo- American plan for the Rühr coal mines but intend to pat into effect promptly its main principles, it was learned In- formed quarters today.

The statement is expected to take the form of a joint note to the four governments In reply to the recent criticism received from France and the Benelux group. All the four countries have objected to the form in which following the September conference on the Rühr coal produc tion in Washington, Britain and the United Stated proposed to transfer the management responsibility Germany.

to

The reply is expected 16 make clear that the replacement of the existing management by the British by an Anglo-American control group. supervising German managerial ́au- thorities, will be carried out.

Memoranda are still being studied

In the British Foreign Office and the

views on the criticisms are belug co-ordinated between London and Washington-Reuter,

and

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Mr. Emanuel Shinwell becomes Relations to become Lord Privy Italy's morning newspapers were Minister of War without a seat Seal (a alnbcure offico equivalent published this afternoon after Left- in the Cabinet.

to a Minister without portfolio)st Party organs had refused to obez Secretary for Scotland, Mr. will remain leader of the Labour 12 hour lockout order by the Na-American State Department, and the Joseph Westwood, and the Minis-Party in the House of Lords. tional Publishers Union, which tor of Pensions, Mr. John Burns He is a former Minister of pended most publications, Hynd, have resigned.

Agriculture, Minister of Muni- Officials of the Publishers Asso- The new appointment, are: tions and Minister of Reconstruc- cistion, said the refusal of the Cam- Secretary of State for Com-tion (after World War I), and munist and Left Wing Socialist

PLANE MISHAP monwealth Relailons-Mr. Philip was elevated to the peerage In Parties to observe the ordered lock-

Paris, Oct. 7. Noel-Baker;

out, would be taken up by the The crew and 10 раззолота Secretary for Scotland, Mr. Ar- Mr. John Wilmot, 52, who has Executive Council.

Escaped uninjured when. an air- thur Woodburn, former Farlin-resigned his post as Minister of Morning newspapers which had liner on the Paris-Bone (Al- mentary Secretary to the Mini-Supply, is one of the Labour not published come out to the after-geria) route, turned over try

He noon after the Association announe caught fire at Bone airfield to Supply;

Party's experts on finance, Secretary for Air--Mr. Arthur joined the Labour Party in 1911 ed the suspension of the order be day, the French News Agency, but failed to get a seat in Parliause of non-observance by the Left Agence France Prease; reported. Mr. Hugh Gattakell takes Mr.ment until 1938.

fist press," Shinwell's place as Minister of During the war, he bold * In Turin, where the newspaper Fuel.

minor pest in Mr. Winston Chur- lockour originated because of a wild- The new Minister of Supply is chill's Coalition Government. He ct typographical strike, 24-hour for wage concessions from the gov

The strike was orderly Mr. G. R. Strauss; the new Minis- was given the Cabinet post of strike of State employees and moni-ernmeal.

PensionsMr. ter of

In the and no demonstrations were schedul- George Minister of Supply immediately sipal workers began Inte

morning to back up labour demands l'ed--United Press, Buchanan; Mr. John Wheatley after the 1945 general election,

Mr. Frederick John Bel becomes Lord Advocate succeed- ing Mr. G. R. Thomson, who 55, who leaves his da appointed Lord Justice in succes-tary of State for Woth World! sion to Lord Moncrieff, whose rean of active service in b signation on grounds of ill-health Wara and earned a reputation as was announced yesterday.

a persistent champion of the Frights of servicemen,

Henderson-

Cabinet Reduced

Tho Cabinet is reduced in number from 19 to 18. More than 30 members of Parliament involved in the changes.

Ato

Partamentary Under-Secretary, Colonial me-Lieutenant Colonel Dark

Д voter-

He became Financial Secretary to the War Oflee in August, 1945, and Minister of Wor a year later.

Mr.

Westwood, 63, whb Joseph leaves the post of Secretary of The new junior Ministers are: State for Scotland, has been con- Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the nected with that department since Ministry of Agriculture-Me: George 1032, when he became Parliamen- Alfrest Brown,

tary Under-Secretary, Не Was puts formerly a political organiser in

Scottish coal fields. Mr. John B. Hynd, 45, who re Relations-Mr. Patrick signs from the post of Minister of Gordon Walker.

Pensions, which he only recently Parlamentary Secretary, Fuol Ministry took over, in an active trade union the Duchy of Lancaster in 1845. organiser-who, as Chancellor of the difficult task of Minister responsible for the administration of the British Zone of Germany.

Wittlema.

Parliamentary Under-Boerslary, Com- monwealth

——Mr,... Alfrodituebona

Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Colonial Other--Mr. Kenneth Gilmur Younger.

Assistant Fest Master General Charles

IRCAMENTE

Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Scotland-James Robertson,

Joint Parliamentary Becretaries of the Ministry of Supply-Major Join Freeman and Mr. John Heney Jones. Pallomen Lory Secretary, Ministry of Town

The Keystone

The keystone of the reshuffle, which involved all Ministerial and grades except the Big Five of the

Country Planning-Evelyn Manel

Каня.

Georg Bottomley.

--Mr. Michael Blewart,

well has been removed,

-Rcutor.

'Cassandra' Attacks

Malaya Set-Up

London, Oct. 7.

Criticism of the cost of administration in Malaya was made by Cassandra, columnist of the Lon- don "Daily Mirror,” in a three-column article on the main editorial page of his paper. Cassandra, who had recently returned from a tour of South-East Asia and Australia, including Hong Kong, compared the attitude of the Bri- tish in Malaya towards the British crisis un- favourably with that of the Australians. In an article headed: "Report"]" Cassandra-declares that the Malaya," Cassandra al-Colonfal Secretary, Mr. Arthur legea that Malaya was "clogged retch-Jones, hou I have given with high-powered and expen- 3r. Malcolm MacDonaitt, the alve personnel at the top-five Governor General, compléte con- Governors, in Governor-General] troi eighteen months ago. and a Special Commissioner," "He is able and patient, ap- He declares: "The Governors proachable and firm. He should

on

the

Indifference.

wald:

Cabinet-the Prime Minister bin. are responsible to the Governor be given full responsibility and self, Mr. Herbert Morrison, Mr. General, the Governor General full encouragement. That he has Farilamentary Secretary, oard of

good Trade (and Overeens Trade in adion Ernest Bevin, the Chancellor of to the Colonial Office and the managed to do so much

the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dalton, Colonlal Offer to the taxpayers, work in upite of the contradic- Parliamentary Betretary, Minister of and Sir Stafford Cripps was the and that means you, brothers tory organisation in which he Transport--Leonand James Callaghan, Ministry of Fuel and Power from and alsters.

was placed, is proof of his ten- Wor Vice, Parliamentary Under-which the powerful and indepen Secretary of Blato and Finance Becretary dent-minded Mr. Emanuel-Shin- under no such restraint for he and frustrating circumstances," "The Special Commissioner is neity and drive in dispiriting

Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, the newly- Mr. Shinwell was the most la the representative of

political Writing about the appointed Minister of Fuel and criticised, of all the Ministers on Foreign Office, whose relations complexion of the British in Power, has been Mr. Shinwell's account of last winter's fuel crisis with the revenue.

Cassandra producing Malaya, Parliamentary Secretary since throughout Britain, and because electorate rarely becomes more Malaya, and especially Singa- May, 19401

of his alledgedly over-optimistic | intimate than utterly remote. pore, la militantly Right. From Mr. Philip Noel-Baker, 57, son- and antagonistic speeches,

"Lord Killearn, the Special businessmen to the clergy, con- of a Canadian-born engineer, who He becomes War Minister and

Commissioner, perhaps better servatism is the one politlen! becomes fialster of Common- this involves his removal from wealth Relations, was the Foreign the Cabinet, though he is sulla known as Sir Miles Lampson, faith..

Не Secretary,

on the tradition, Minister of Cabinet rank Mr. Ernest Bevin's,

and carries

Twenty triumphant byo- maintains a right hand man after the general salary,

large staff. (612) elections in a straight flush may. Statements Crom the miners' at the last counting and all; comfort. Transport House, but election of 1945.

to the British theyoxelle only disgust, A year later, he became Se leader, Mr. Arthur Horner, and chargeable

and One of the other figures in recent days aug: taxpayer) and lives in a splendid contempt in Malaya." cretary for. Air. Labour Government's wealthiest gest that this Government change residence belonging to .the Ministers, he wen his Parilamon- may provide the anger of the in-

dustrial world.

Sultan of Johore. tary scat in 1929.

consonant "Anything less

"Alfhough it is always Mr. Shlowell, who is ver 60,1

dif- Mr. Arthur Henderson, 84, who takes over the Air Ministry, has woung Hugh Galiskell, who, in a of his threadbare employers replaced by his Deputy, the, with the present ascetic mood

ficult to assess the outlook of

been attached to a number of

the sudden British crisis at Government departments algee he few years, has risen from the the British Government, would any community in a short time, was first returned to Parliament Cabinet Minister to equal rank,

humble post of secretary to a be hard to imagine.

home gave me an exceptional Wistful In 1925.

opportunity. When his post as Under-Secre- though he will not be within the

Cabinet Itself,

"His principal duties were the "In Australia, where I was a tary for India and Burma was He is regarded as one of the problems of rice (largely de-week earlier, the news of our reduced in importance with the most promising speakers and ad- elded in Washington) and

the plight WDS received with transfer of power in India, he bo-ministrators in the Party.

concern, almost came Minister of State in the With tonight's change, and in-policy of the defence of South-genuine

Inproaching consternation Commonwealth Relations Office. cluding the recently retired Mr. east Asia, (mainly settled

Mr. George Strauss, 40 the Arthur Greenwood, Mr Attles Whitehall).

ed "One of his plentiful staff told Bingapore, they display- more fortitudo or fridif Minister of Supply, is a has dismissed 12 Ministers in all former Lord Privy Seal, wartime six of them senior and six junior me wistfully that she did not ference. The event passed al Minister of Alecraft Production Prophesies that Missed think that the organisation most without comment-apart and finally Parliamentary Secre

from a certain amount of tary to the Ministry of TransAdvance speculation on the

anxious scrutiny, of stock mar changes was falsified In at least

ket prices.

· Scotland's Minister” three- important; Items: Mr. A. V.

Alexander retains his post, as lude to the greatest hour of our "Again, the exceptions were Mr. Arthur Woodburn, 57, the Minister of Defence with control history, with anxious anticipation. the Australian residents in new Secretary of State for Scot-over all three Defence services. "Me, Attlee has kept us on ten- land, was a former Parliamentary The Minister of Health, Mr. terhooks and how the move has Sngapore, who seemed to have Secretary to the Ministry of Aneurin Bevan, retains his post boon-made in labour' and 'has far’closer tien, with this country

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