The Colonial Office, too, has had to advise His Majesty
upon several new appointments. Lord Plumer, after gallantly serving a valuable term in Palestine, has come home. As the first Christian High Commissioner under• our Mandate, he had advantages over his predecessor in holding the balance between Jew and Arab, not that the first High Commissioner deserved any suspicion of bias. Lord Plumer, though stupidly suspect at first as a soldier, has won great popularity on all sides. He has got the best out of the team of officials under him. He is to be succeeded by Sir John Chancellor, who, after governing Trinidad, has served for five years in Southern Rhodesia with great success. He will be followed there by Sir Cecil Rodwell, who knew, South Africa well from Lord Miler's days, though he left it to bear the resounding title High Comissioner of the Pacific and is now Governor of British Guiana, where he has seen that Colony through a Constitutional crisis. General Sir Gordon Guggisberg has been appointed to British Guiana. He was Governor of the Gold Coast until last year, and guided it into a condition of remarkable prosperity. Sir John Middleton, the Governor of Gambia, was appointed a little while ago to Newfoundland, and will be succeeded in Gambia by Sir Edward Denham, the Colonial Secretary in Kenya. Such a tale of changes forcibly reminds us of the Bidding Prayer and its mention of our Universities, Colleges, and Schools, and their "due supply of persons qualified to serve God in Church and State." The names recorded above give us confidence.
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