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of the House CT Laymen and has an
aunt who married bishop. During
the war he was colonel on the gen.
eral staff After 1t his banking knowl-
edge did not prevent him from utter
ing the pious hope that $25 900 900 900
would only be the first installment of
the German reparations.
Runciman HeIds Key Position.
When they made him air minister
his first job was to make speeches tact
fully informing Britains late ally,
France, that the British disliked her
| air program and proposed building up
to her level. He is orthodox, pleasant,
tactful, rich, handsome, trim. politically
safe-and he makes no trouble for his
leaders
| Sir Walter Runciman was a minister
| in the pre-war AsQuith Liberal admin
istratlon. He is president of the Board
of Trade and held the same post dur
| ing the first two war years. He has
been in Parliament 30 years. Mainly
a shipping man. his directories never
| theless include a big insurance COM
| pany, one of the Big Five banks and
the biggest railroad. He is the son OF
old Walter Runciman. who is still alive
! and kicking, though the son has turned
60, Runciman senior is the Robert Dol
lar of the British Isles He Is enor-
mously experienced in commerce and
finance. and so highly regarded in big
! business circles that when the great
White Star Line, Britain's biggest, hit
! the rocks, he was called in to Straightea
out the mess.
| AS a shipping man and a Liberal
| Walter Runciman has been a lifelong
| free trader, but in the August crisis
he compromised to the extent of adj
vocating the prohibition Of the i'm
portation of luxury goods Cold, pre-
else, businesslike. he now holds one of
| the two key positions so far as tariffs
and administration Of any tariff act
are concerned, and offsets the high
| protectionist, Chamberlain, in the
| treasury.
Simon Put in Foreign Office.
In putting Sir John Simon in at the
| foreign Office, Macdonald was taking
a leaf from the American book and
breaking an age-old British tradition.
America prefers to intruSt the man
agement of her relations with other
/ countries to trained legal brains The
British heretofore have preserved that
job for a great nobleman or a dis
tinguished statesman. Simon. a lawyer
possesses the ablest legal brain in Eng
land.
In Parliament where until recently
he sat as a Liberal, he was not popular
because he always addressed the House
like lawyer addressing the judge.
He got tired Of politician tactics OF
Lloyd George early in the national
crisis, and was the first Liberal to leave
the chief on the issue of cooperation
with the Socialists In an exchange
OF letters the affronted Liberal leader
came off second best. Right wing Lib
erals went over to Simon and he car
ried them to Macdonald in the crisis
He now heads tie Liberal group favor
ing Ariffss
attorney general before the war and
home secretary in the wartime coali-
tion-but he refused the great politi-
cal prize of lord chancellorship. The
lord chancellor cannot return to Law
practice-he has only a pension OF
$4,000 plus anything he can earn on
tN, side in journalism and business
Simon preferred to continue ecrnins
the biggest income at the bar. He
earnFd his right to a peerage when he
wants one by giving his time and tai
entS in the Craftsmanship Of the his
toric commission that made the now
Simon . SO and a tremendous
worker. There will be no Hender.
sonian emotionaliSm about his conduct
OF tie foreign policy. He will prob
ably accept briefs from his principal
Macdonald, and talk from them, anC
not initiate any foreign policy notion.
of his owl His skill in unravelini
intricate commercial financial cases
his profound knowledge of the 1ndiaI
-fti nvH
spot. and his position on tariffs will
t make him a tower of strength TO
{ Macdonald.
Cunliffe-Lister Heads Trade.
, Sir Philip CunlifIe-Lister was bar
rister dabbling in politics before tn
war. He went into the war bu
emerged in 1917 and took a heade
right into politics. 1t was a propi
, tious time; he was promoted to b
parliamentary secretary to the Boar,
3 Of Trade, and two years later becam
: minister Of trade. He had two furthe
spells as minister of that department
{ and was the Tory hope for a thir
spell, but Macdonald thought him
bit too enthusiastic and made mir
: minister for the colonies instead. H
has a finger now in the fiscal puddin
so far as the on-self-governing part
\, OF the empire are concerned.
, He is a tall, good-looking man c
= Al. with a very rich wife, whose ex
tensive properties he manages. The
inherited their fortune in 1924 ON con
dition that he change his name froI
= Lloyd-Greame to Cunliffe-IiSter. II
Il changed. He is q good shot and hit
z a long ball at golf, but most of h
" time is spent at his desk. He We
.e chairman Of the Imperial Econom
ID Conference in 1923 and will play q
IF important part in the next one
st Lord Sankey, reappointed to the ONT
m of Lord Chancellor he held in the la
Socialist administration, is o bachel
ID Judge Of IS, tall, with Q grave, MASH