The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-12-14
NEW PREMIER OF BRITAIN FORMS
POWERFUL WAR CABINET
WHICH WILL HOLD DAILY
SESSIONS.
PERMITS MORE AGGRESSIVE
WARFARE AGAINST TEUT0NS
Coalition Ministry Backs Efforts Of
"Inner Circle Through Whose Di-
rections Prime Minister Hopes
to Turn Tide of Combat
in Allies Favor.

London, Dec. 12.-Oficial
ment is made that the government has
been constituted with a war cabinet
as follows:
Premier, David Lloyd-George; lord
president of the council, Earl Curzon,
who also will be government leader in
the House of Lords; Arthur Hender-
son, minister without portfolio; Lord
Miner, minister without portfolio, and
Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor OF the
exchequer, who has been asked by the
premier to act as leader in the House
Of Commons and also as member of
the war cabinet without being expect
ed to attend regularly.
LIoyd-Georee Almost Dictator.
An important point in this novel Or
ganization is that it concentrates far
more power in the hands Of the prime
minister than the British system ever
has known before. Mr.. Lloyd Georges
proposals to Premier Asquith were for
a war council of which the premier
should not be a member, although he
should have the power of passing on
its work. Mr.. Lloyd-George has not
hesitated to place himself in the posi-
ton more closely resembling a dicta-
torship than he was willing to give
his predecessor.
New Cabinet to Meet Daily.
The war cabinet will hold daily ses-
sions directing the prosecution of the
war, and the freedom Of Mr.. Lloyd
George, Lord Miner and Mr.. Hender-
son from departmental duties will al
low them to devote all their time to
the war council, the work of the ex-
chequer and government leadership.
The establishment of the war cabi-
net marks the ultimate achievement of
Lloyd-George in his successful fight to
seize the reins of the British govern
ment from the hands of former Pre-
mier Asquith and effect a reconstruc-
ton along lines that would permit a
more aggressive warfar against the
TeutoEic allies.
Ministry Backs Efforts.
He now has formed his Inner cir
Gle" of executives through whose di-
rect control of war activities he hopes,
as he has made evident by his earlier
aggressions against Asquith and the
latter's liberal ministry, to turn the
tide OF combat decisiyely and perma-
nently in favor Of the Allied forces.
Backing the efforts of his war cabi-
net Lloyd George has his coalition
ministry, organized on Asquith's down
fall and his succession to the pre-
miership and representing a big ma
jority of England's political parties,
whose support, it is felt, is powerful
enough to enable the new premier to
put into execution the war policy he
has advocated.
Other Members of Ministry.
The other members of the ministry
who are not in the war cabinet are:
Lord high chancellor, Sir Robert
Bannatyne Finlay.
Secretary of state for the home de-
partment, Sir George Cave.
Secretary of state for foreign af.
fairs, Arthur j. Balfour.
Secretary Of state for the colonies,
Walter Hume Long.
Secretary of state for war, Earl of
Derby.
Secretary Of state for India, Austen
Chamberlain.
President of the local government
board, Baron Rhoudda.
President Of the board of trade, Sir
Albert Stanley.
Minister of labor, John Hodge.
First lord of the admiralty, Sir Ed
ward Carson.
Minister Of munitions, DR.. Christie
pher Addison.
Minister OF blockade, Lord Robert
Cecil.
Food controller, Baron Davenport.
Lord lieutenant of Ireland, Baron
Wimborne.
Chief secretary for Ireland, Henry
e. Duke.
Lord chancellor for Ireland. Ignatius
J. O'Brien, X. C..
Attorney general, Sir Frederick E.
Smith.
Sir Robert B~annatyne Finlay in ac-
cepting the office of lord high chan
cellor stipulated that his right to a
pension be waived.