Important Ministerial changes were announced in the papers of Wednesday.
Sir Edward Carson leaves the Admiralty and joins the War Cabinet without portfolio. Sir Erie Geddes becomes First Lord. Dr. Addison leaves the Ministry of Munitions and becomes Minister in Charge of Reconstruction without portfolio. Mr. E. S. Montagu succeeds Mr. Chamberlain as Secretary of State for Indio. Mr. Churchill becomes Minister of Munitions. We have every desire to support the Government, and therefore a very strong desire not to cavil at any appointments Mr. Lloyd George may make. We accept the general principle that a Prime Minister must pick his own team. Sir Erie Geddes may be the very best man for the Admiralty. He has had a romantic, and even a brilliant, career. Mr. Lloyd George should know best, and we await the results with every expectation that he will be justified.
