The names of the Royal Commissioners upon the coal industry
were published last week. Sir Herbert Samuel has agreed to act as Chairman. The considerable position that he had made for himself at home by his ability and hard work before be went to Palestine, his public spirit and his detachment from home politics for the last five years are excellent qualifications. Of his colleagues, Sir William Beveridge is well known as a theoretical economist with a wide and varied experience of practical work too, to whom the social questions involved will make a strong appeal. Sir Herbert Lawrence has made his mark in finance, but the great military qualities which he has displayed prove him to be a man who can turn a powerful brain and great energy into more than one direction. Mr. Kenneth Lee is a man of wide commercial repute who also knows the North of England intimately.
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