Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-20

Stanley Baldwin, Britain's new
Conservative premier. has correctly
interpreted the will of the electorate
as expressed in Englands recent cleo
ton, in the opinion of many Amer
lean editors. The fact that he has
avoided the reactionary forces Of his
own party in the selection of his
cabinet ministers, these writer's be-
lieve, indicates that England will
now be governed by the progressive
element in the Conservative party.
AS the New York Evening Post sees
it: The first fruits of the Conserva- =
tive victory in Great Britain show
fair promise. Prime Minister Bald
wins cabinet appointments indicate
that he has neither misinterpreted
the mandate the Conservative party
has received from the country nor
ignored the problems with which the
new government will be confronted"
The Indianapolis News declares 1.-The
new cabinet undoubtedly reflects the
temper of the people as manifested
in the recent election and yet is not
hide-bound. The prime minister is
looking to the future. rather than to
the past. And ii may be that his
government will prove to be soundly
Conservative-as against Socialism
and yet sanely progressive"
Essentially, 1t is a coalition gov
eminent except in name" the Newark
News points out, and adds: "Impor-
tart portfolios have been given to the
Liberal element in the old Lloyd
George coalition. Austen Chamber
lain, Winston Churchill and Lord
Birkenhead, all anathema in the eyes
of the Tory die-hards, are in the
foreign office, the exchequer and the
India Office. The only difference Is that
they are now listed officially as
Tories" The new cabinet is surpris-
ing for its liberal complexion, in the
opinion Of the Baltimore Sun, which
adds: Mere wealth and privilege have
no part in 1t. Neither has prejudice Of
the 'die-hard' school. Premier Baldwin
has surrounded himself with men rep
resenting the purely aristocratic,
highly trained and relatively impair
tial elements of Conservatism and in
so doing he has intrenched Conserva-
tive rule much more permanently than
by having merely an overwhelming
parliamentary majority" Proof OF his
break with the die-hards, in the opin
ion of the Buffalo News, us offered in
the appointment of Winston Churchill
to the highly important post of chan
cellor of the excheQuer, and Baldwin,
by including Churchill and also Lord
Birkenhead in his cabinet, was signal
ing a complete healing Of the breach
with the coalitionists who had served
under Lloyd George"
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The Louisville Courier-Journal says:
THE outstanding thing about the
cabinet is that about which the die
hards are protesting. The government
is not a close corporation and will not
shape its course along ultra-Conserva-
tive lines. Stanley Baldwin has placed
patriotism above politics and there Is
to be no kind of spoils system In Eng
land" The Baldwin ministry, accord
ing to the Cincinnati Times-Star,
reveals political initiative and imagi-
nation. There may have been much
grumbling in the Carlton Club. but
Mr.. Baldwin has succeeded in liber-
alizing Conservatism. And, after all.
in Great Britain or in the United
States It is we'll to realize that dry
rot does not conserve"
AS the Boston Transcript sees II,
TN addition to the fact that it recog-
mixes the actual turn of political
events, and that, with the presence OF
Mr.. Churchill in the exchequer, 1t as
sures the abandonment of the protec-
ZIONIST experiment which wrecked Mr..
Baldwin's previous ministry this
cabinet must be considered fairly
strong working organization" The
personnel of the new ministry the
Springfield Republican considers "the
more important, because, unlike its
predecessors since the end Of the war
time coalition, 1t will be able to carry