The Archive · 1940

More Ministerial Appointments

Sir Donald Somervell to Be New Attorney-General; New Posts Created

London, May 16.

Further Ministerial appointments announced last night include; Sir Donald Somervell:—Attorney-General.

Sir William Jowitt:—Solicitor-General.

Viscount Cranborne:—Paymaster-General.

Mr. R. A. Butler: inder-Secretary of State for Foreign Affai Mr. G. H. Shħakespeare:—Under-Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr. G. H. Hall:—Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Mr. Harcourt Johnstone:—Secretary of Overseas Trade.

Mr. Walter Womersley:—Minister of Pensions.

Mr. W. S

Morrison:—Postmaster General.

Mr. T, M. Cooper:—Lord Advocate for Scotland.

Capt. H. F. C. Crookshank:—Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

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