Mr. Chamberlain Made Lord President of Council Mr. Eden Gets War Office, Mr. Alexander Admiralty London, May 12. ORMATION of a long heralded War Cabinet was announced last night.
It is comprised of the following Mr. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence; Mr, Neville Chamberlain, Lord President of the Council; Mr. Clement R. Attlee, Lord Privy Seal; Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretar} Mr, Arthur Greenwood, Minister without portfolio.
The following appointments also were made: Mr. Albert} Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralt; Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary of War; Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of Air.
These appaiutees are not members of the War Cabinet.
Leaders of three parties participate Ing in the Government, - whether members of the War Cabinet or not, Will be consulted when questions arise affecting the general character and aims of the Government, including conditions of peace, Ing. Churchill will lead the House of Commons. He was busy last night reviewing all other departments of the Government, and is expected to make drastic changes.
It is expected that the conference of the Labour Party at Bournemouth will register its approval of the War Cabinet on Monday, says Reuter's Lobby" Correspondent.
"The frst reactions In Labour circles last night were that' with only one departmental man, Lord Halifax (who remains Foreign Secretary, in the War Cabinet, it Is one of war concentration, The correspondent writes that the size and nature of the appointments Show that Mr. Churchill accommodsted himself to views other than his own, The demand for a smaller War Cabinet "had been © insistent, and though Mr, Churchill himself had pointed out in debate certain possible Henitations of such a body, he nex adapis it.
The idea had been prevalent in political circles that Mf. Chamberlain Would return to the Exchequer and release the Prime Minister from the Foutine of Commons duties by taki the leadership of the House Neither Labour nor some back bench Conservative opinion appeared to like the plan, fa acy case there is no leadership in the Commons mentioned inthe oficial announcement Which leaves it nominally in Mr. was First Lord from 1929 to 1931. Mr. Eden's" appointment will be popular and Sur Archibald 'Sinclair will be felt to have fitted himsel€ into the general scheme without regard to personal or party status, in a manner that should' make his apointment generally acceptable, the correspondent states.
The remaining Government apointments are expected on Monday.
'The new Prime Minister, Mtr, Winston Churchill, and Give ' other members of his Government were sworn in before the King at a Privy Council at Buckingham' Palace to-
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