The Ministry Among new appointments to the Government which we
have not recorded, there are the law officers. Sir William Jowitt is reappointed as Attorney-General. It would be easy to say that lie has before now shown himself above party, but much fairer to say that he has done very good work and lived down most of the angry criticism that he aroused when he first took office. Sir Thomas Inskip became Solicitor-General, as he was in the last Unionist Government. Mr. Craigie Aitchison takes again the Lord Advocate's office. Mr. Ormsby-Gore becomes Postmaster-General ; he has been a very able and hardworking Member, who held office in the Colonial Office. Major Tryon takes the Ministry of Pensions, of which • he has already had experience. Major Walter Elliot has the very important post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury under Mr. Snowden. Two appointments of interest to those who study the hereditary principle are those of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald as Under-Secretary at the Dominions Office, and Mr. G. Lloyd George as Parliamentary Secretary at the Board of Trade. Mr. Duff Cooper returns to the War Office as Financial Secretary. It is also announced that Lord Lothian, a Liberal representative on the Round Table Con- ference, will answer for the India Office in the House of Lords.
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