By the end of last week it became known that
Mr. Lloyd George intended to govern with a very small Cabinet of at the' most six members. In the result it has turned out to contain only five- s redaction from the twenty-three of the late Ministry. The new Cabinet is synonymous with the War Council. It is in fact a War. Cabinet. Most of the Ministers, who• used as a matter of course, to belong to the Cabinet, are now to move and have their being outside the central system. Even the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Secretary for War, and the Minister of Munitions are not in the Cabinet. The principle on whieh Mr. Lloyd George has 'worked is that no one can be the effective head of a Department and at the same time concern himself with the general administration of- the war. Departmental work and executive work are regarded as separate things. Of coarse the heads of the three war Departments will have to be in constant 'contact with the War• Cabinet, and so will Sir William Robertson and Sir John Jellicoe. How this very bold and novel plan will work is a problem to which we refer else- where.
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