11 OCTOBER 1940, Page 3

They fail to understand why the Chancellor of the Exchequer

should be in the War Cabinet now, if it was unnecessary four months ago. As for the new appointments of Mr. Herbert Morrison and Miss Wilkinson, they are frankly worried whether any new appointments can solve the London problem, especially after Sir Warren Fisher and Mr. Willink have just been added to the number of Commissioners. Surely all this betrays a lack of grasp. Some go further and say that the minor and unimportant post given to Lord Tryon is pure party politics. At any rate it is quite inexplicable. Why not give some young man his apprenticeship at the Ministry of Pensions? Why?

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