Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-12-15
WAR CABINET NAMED
BRITISH PREMIER ANNOUNCES
APPOINTMENT OF INSIDE
COUNCIL OF FOUR.
cURzoN IS LORD PRESIDENT
Henderson, Miner and Ronar Law Are
His Associates-sir Edward Carson
Heads the Navy-BaIfour Foreign
Secretary.

London, Dec. 12.-Ofcial announce
ment was made on Sunday. that the
government had been constituted, with
a war cabinet comprising the following:
Premier-David Lloyd George.
Lord President of the Council
Earl Curzon, who also will be govern
ment leader in the house of lords.
Arthur Henderson, minister without
portfolio.
Lord Miner, minister without port
folio.
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
member of the war cabinet without be-
ing expected to attend regularly.
An important point in this novel
organization is that it concentrates
far more power in the hands of the
prime minister than the British syS-
tenn has ever known before. Mr..
Lloyd Georges proposals to Premier
AsQuith were for war council of
which the premier should not be a
member, although he should have the
power of passing on it's work.
Mr.. LlOyd-George has not hesitated
to place himself in the position more
closely resembling a dictatorship than
he was willing to give his predecessor,
The war cabinet will hold daily ses-
sions, directing the prosecution Of
the war. Mr.. Lloyd-G George, Lord Mil
ner and Mr.. Henderson will be the
chief directors of the war.
For practical purposes the govern
ment will be by a cabinet of four.
The other members of the ministry,
who are not in the war cabinet, are:
Lord high chancellor, Sir Robert
Banntyne Finlay; secretary of state
for the some department, Sir George
Gave secretary OF state for foreign af-
fairs, Arthur r. Balfour; secretary Of
safe for the colonies, Walter Hume
Long: secretary of state for war, the
earl Of Derby secretary Of state for
India, Austen Chamberlain; president
of the local government, Baron Rhond-
da; president of the board of trade, Sir
Albert Stanley; minister of labor, John
Hodge; first lord of the admiralty, Sir
Edward Carson minister Of munitions,
DIR. Christopher Addison; minister of
blockade, Lord Robert Cecil; food con-
troller, Baron Davenport shipping con-
troller, Sir Joseph Patton Maclay pres
ident Of the board of agriculture, Row
land e. Prothero: president of the
board of education, Herbert A. L. Fish.
err; first commissioner Of works, Sir Al
fred M. Mond; chancellor of the duchy
Of Lancaster, Sir Frederick Cawley
postmaster general, Albert nlingWorth
minister of pensions, George N.
Barnes; attorney general, Sir Fred
erfck r. Smith; solicitor general, Cor
don Hewart, K. c.; secretary for Scot
land, Mr.. Munro; lord advocate, James
A. Clyde, X. c.; solicitor general for
Scotland, Thomas B. Morrison, K. c.;
lord lieutenant Of Ireland, Baron VIM
borne; chief secretary for Ireland,
Henry e. Duke; lord chancellor for
Ireland, Ignatius ]. O'Brien, K. G.
Lord Northcliffe's organ, the Weekly
Dispatch, says that Premier Lloyd
Georges program comprises the fol-
lowing:
/. The arming of merchantmen in
order to fight the submarine peril.
2. The preparation for the spring of
fensive.
3. The mobilization of the civil pop
ulation between the ages of sixteen and
sixty.
4. The making effective Of the block
ade.
5. The rationing of the population
by the Issue of food tickets.
6. The increasing Of the home food
production.
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