The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-04-02
INDICATES NEW POLICY
London Times Says He
Scarcely Would Have Ac-
cepted Otherwise
OTHER CABINET CHANGES
Sir Robert Horne, Chancellor
of Exchequer; Stanley Bald
win to Board of Trade.
81 he Assoc.oted Press.

LONDON, April 1.--viscount French
will be succeeded as Lord Lieutenant
and Governor General of Ireland by
Lord Edmund Bernard Talbot who
has held the post of Joint Parlia-
mentary Secretary for the Treasury.
Sir Robert $. Horne. president of the
Board of Trade, has been appointed
Chancellor of the Exchequer in sue
cession to J. Austen Chamberlain
Stanley Baldwin. Parliamentary Sec
rotary to the Treasury, will become
the new president of the Board OF
Trade.
The reconstruction of the Govern
ment is on a much larger scale than had
been expected. The most remarkable
appointment is that Of Robert s Horne
to the CHARACTERISTIC of the Exchequer
In Parliament only two years. ne suc-
ceeds to the most important position in
the Cabinet after the Premier. Several
of the score of new appointments are
new men who with be obliged 10 seel,
reelection.
The appointment of Lord Edmund
Talbot to the Irish post is extremely
interesting. He Will assume office al
the beginning of May in order to
Issue wrts for the elections under the
home rule act. He is the leading lay
Roman Cathoic in the Kingdom and
the first Catholic to become Viceroy OF
Ireland.
Civilian yiceroy Jnder Home Rule.
The appointment of Lord Edmund
was due to the necessity under the
Home Rule act. of appointing civilian
viceroy.
These changes necessitated a consid-
cradle reconstruction of the Ministry.
Among the changes and new appoint
ments are:
DR.. Christopher Addison, the Minis
ter Of Health. is made Minister with
out portfolio
Capt Frederick Guest aid de camp to
Field Marshal French, becomes Air Sec
rotary.
sir Alfred Mond, First Commissioner
of Works. becomes Minister OF Health.
viscount Peel. Under Secretary for
War, becomes Chancellor of the Duchy
OF Lancaster.
The Earl Of Crawford, Chancellor Of
the Duchy of Lancaster. becomes First
Commissioner OF Works.
The Right Honorable Frederick G.
Kellaway. head of the Overseas Trade
Department, becomes Postmaster-Gen-
eral.
Charles A. McCurdy. Food Controller.
becomes Joint Parliamentary Secretary
of the Treasury.
Major Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme. par
liamentary secretary to the Board OF
Trade. becomes director of overseas
trade.
Albert II. Illingworth. who held the
post of postmaster-general, is retiring
on account of ill health.
The London Times. referring to Lord
Edmund Talbot as the most popular
chief Unionist whip for a generation. "
says:
Whether his qualifications as the
foremost lay Catholic in England viii
recommend him as strongly to the Irish
people as the Government seems to ex-
pcct is an open question, but as he
would scarcely have accepted the APP
pointment without some assurance that
the system OF administration which,
marked the later years OF Viscount
French's vlceroyalty will hardly be
maintained in all its unintelligent rigor,
he may enter his most important Office
under favorable auspices"
The Times further remarks that the
Irish problem cSxnot b. solved by a
change in persons unless there be a
change in policy. and concludes by
speaking OF the now appointments as
a whole as follows:
THE comparative insignifcance OF the
extensive shuttle and deal lies in the
circumstance that it contains no clear
indication OF policy. 1t Is a whirl of
persons effected apparently without in
teliigible method or plan