Since our last issue Ministers have been appointed to fill
the places in the Government which had not been assigned last week. Mr. Samuel goes back to the Post Office, but is not a member of the Cabinet ; Mr. E. S. Montagu becomes Financial Secretary to the Treasury; Hr. Brace, the Smith
Wales miners' leader, becomes Under-Secretary for Home Affairs ; and we are glad to see that Lord Robert Cecil is the new Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Steel-Maitland becomes Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Islington Under-Secretary at the India Office, and Mr. Tennant remains at the War Office. Mr. H. W. Forster is Financial Secretary to the War Office, and Mr. Macnamara, as before, to the Admiralty. Mr. Pretyman is Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, Mr. Hayes Fisher to the Local Government Board, Mx. Aeland to the Board of Agriculture, Mr. Herbert Lewis to the Board of Education, and Dr. Addison to the new Department of Munitions. The Government Bill relieving Ministers during the war from the necessity of being re- elected on assuming office is a very desirable measure. We do not want men who have been carefully chosen for their work to have contested elections forced on them by faddists.
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