14 JUNE 1930, Page 2

Ministerial Changes In our last issue we mentioned the new

appointments of Mr. Thomas and Mr. Vernon Hartshorn. The other new Ministerial appointments are Dr. Addison as Minister of Agriculture, Lord De La Warr as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Lord Marley as Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office, Mr. Shinwell as Secretary for Mines, and Mr. Stephen Sanders as Financial Secretary to the War Office. These appoint- ments make it clear that there is little fear of the extremists, and confirm what we said after the General Election about the " real cleavage." Some of the new Ministers will have a difficult task. We comment on Dr. Addison's in a leading article. * *