The Washington herald., 1922-10-25
Marquis of Salisbury Is
Named Lord President
OF Council.
LIBERALS URGE
DEBTS REVISION
Ambassador Geddes May
Have Charge of Debt
Negotiations.

LONDON. Oct. 2t.-Andrew Bonar
Law. the new premier. completed
his list of ministers and submitted
them to the King late today They
were approved by his majesty and
officially announced as follows:
Lord president o< the council.
Marquis of Salisbury.
Lord chancellor. Lord Cave.
Foreign minister. Lord Curzon.
Minister of colonies. Duke of
Devonshire.
Minister OF war. Lord Derby.
First lord of the admiralty, l. c.
Amery.
Chancellor Of the erchequer.
Stanley Baldwin.
Home minister. w. c. Brideeman.
Secretary for India. viscount
Peel.
Attorney general. Douglas Hocg.
Education. e. r. l. Wood.
President of the Board Of Trade.
Sir Phillip Loyd-Graeme.
Health. Sir Arthur Griffith Bos-
canwen.
Agriculture. Sir Robert Sanders.
Secretary for Scotland. viscount
Nevar
Lord Advocate. wsllisrn Watson.
Bonar Law. following the custom.
will hold the portfolio OF first lord
Of the treasury.
Liberals Outline Platform.
Just as the Conservative govern
ment was being completed, the
Liberal party issued a manifes.o
outlining the platform on which IL
will attempt to overhrow the
Unionists in the general election.
This platform:
/: Condemns the Lloyd George
coalition.
2. Declares for disarmament and
peace through the league Of ma
tions.
3. Urges revision and settlement
OF the reparations and allied debts
questions.
4. Demands drastic reductions in
expenditures. abandonment OF for
eign ventures. unemployment relief.
cooperation Of capital and lRbnr.
unqualified free trade. and politica'
equality OF both sexes
VIII Pay Debt 10 US.
! Payment OF the British debt to
the United States and faintcnafr-s
Of close dignified friendship between
the two powers is TO be the csrGr
! policy Of the new Conservative gov
ernment. There will be no attenI-'-
40 persuade the United States into %
program Of European activity. hut
. mbassador Gcddes Will convey I'D.
intimatlon to the Harding admins
trat'on that Americas participatian
in affairs of this side will aiwa--s
be welcome whether OF a temporary
or permanent nature.
Incidentally. Geddes will not De
!
Law regards him peculiarly fitted To
deal with the debt Tu,.ding problem
soon to be taken up at Washington.
Then too. Bonar Law req rds Cieddes
as a Canadian and for This additional
reason considers him well suited Tor
the Washington post.
-Forgets- BaIfeur Note.
The first thing the new premier
decided on was the forgetting" Of
the recent debts note OF Lord Ball
four. then acting foreign secretary.
which notified the powers that Great
| Britain could not consider reduction
Of war debts until the British bor-
rowings in America were adjusted.
] The note raised geLeTal criticism not
only abroad but amonE Balf"ur's
own colleagues in the 90 binet u
was ssneraliy regarded as a blum
der. Hence. Boasr La~. while not
/ openly disavoN ns tue note. has de
cIded thAt il will ue gracefully
/ forgotten"
TAe lsw premier's decision 20 cr
the control Of British policy from
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entirely IN the hands OF has foreign
minister Lord Curzon. latterly
] Lloyd Georges foreign nainistc--
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between the new British govern
ment and the Harding administra-
! tion.
Resented PremIer's Domination
Lord Curzon is understood to have
/ grown impatient Of Lloyd George
domination Of foreign policy during
the last days OF the old coalition
sovernnent. In his speech to the
! Cnionist party meeting he de-
nounced that method IN severe an
! Euage and left no doubt that ne viii
be master OF Britaln's foreign sf-
fairs as long as he holds his port
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There 10 a strong possibility that
1 Reginald McRenna. former chancel
lor Of the British eNchequer, VIA
replace Sir Robert Horne as head
OF the British debt funding commits
sion to the United States.
Labor Has 900 Candidates.
Labor is preparing for the great
est campaign of fits career. Four
hundred candidates, nifty more than
stood In the 1915 elections. are TAX
ing the field this week END. Labor
ties expect to gain an advantage
from the apparent dissension among
liberals and conservatives. They
predict they will elect $50 candidates
and even the anti-Laborite leaders
admit the possibility Of 100 Labor
members in the next house OF com
mons instead of the seventy-seven
now there.
Arthur Henderson, John r. Clynes
and other labor leaders were In con-
ference all day today preparing n
manifesto which probably viii
answer the charges of Bolshevism
which the Unionists have been
throwing at them.
The Laborite platform. II Is
learned authoritatively. Will embody
these points:
Promotion Of international peace
and international agreements 70
limit armsments looking TO uiti-
mate disarmament,
Adoption OF . foreign policy that
Will reestabiish the political. econ
asnic and industrial balance Of
Europe,