A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
WHAT strikes the eye about Mr. Baldwin's list of junior appointments is that the so-called Young Conser- vatives have come off rather badly. The Prime Minister put their leader, Lord Eustace Percy, into the Cabinet, but the rank-and-file have not been drawn on as expected for the Under-Secretaryships. One reason was the balance of power. National Labour, having lost one junior post, the Under-Secretaryship for the Dominions, Mr. Kenneth Lindsay had to be given a Civil Lordship of the Admiralty —a perfectly sound appointment in itself. Mr. W. S. Morrison would no doubt have got office of some sort if he had wanted it, but he has little inducement to sacrifice the considerable income he is earning at the Bar for the moderate emoluments attaching to a junior post. Capt. Euan Wallace will only have a limited scope at the Home Office under Sir John Simon, but his career will be watched with interest in view of the report he presented on Tyne- side and Durham as Commissioner for that depressed area. No other commissioner produced so competent a survey.
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