Viscount Swinton's appointment to West Africa as Minister of State
is unexpected, but I shall be surprised if it does not turn out well. Lord Swinton (who began life under the name of Lloyd- Graeme and subsequently became Cunliffe-Lister) has not quite been given his due by public estimation. He was (apart from an unfortunate little malentendu with Lord Nuffield) a hard-working and successful Air Minister ; to him, as I mentioned a year or two ago here, was due the vitally important decision to adopt the Spit- fire as 'he standard fighter. If not much has been heard of him lately that is for a very good reason. He has been doing admirable work as chairman of a highly important Government committee whose existence is hardly known to the public and its activities not at all. The post he vacates will be singularly difficult to fill.
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