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The recess began with the announcement of the changes in the Government made by Sir Anthony Eden. The full list is: Mr. Harold Macmillan to replace Sir Anthony Eden as Foreign Secre- tary; Mr. Selwyn Lloyd to replace Mr. Macmillan as Minister of
Defence; Lord Home to replace Lord Swinton (who is created an earl) as Secretary for Commonwealth Relations; Mr. Reginald Maudling to replace Mr. Lloyd as Minister of Supply; Dr. Charles Hill to replace Lord De La Warr as Postmaster-General; Mr. T. D. Galbraith to replace Lord Home as Minister of State, Scottish Office; Sir Edward Boyle to replace Mr. Maudling as Economic Secretary to the Treasury; Mr. J. N. Browne to replace Mr. Gal= braith as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Scottish Office; Mr. Harmar Nicholls to become Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture; Mr. D. Kaberry to replace Mr. Henry Strauss (who is made a baron) as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade; and Mr. F. J. Errol to replace Sir Edward Boyle as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply. Sir Anthony Eden called the first meeting of the altered Cabinet on Tuesday evening. If the Conservatives needed any encouragement to hold an early election it came with the county council election results. These showed that Labour had lost control of five councils, Essex, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Carmarthenshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. After making every discount possible, the results must appear extremely favourable to the Conservative Party. It can, for example, have had little hope of making gains in Lanca- shire at the moment when there is so much uncertainty about the future of the cotton industry.
COTTON—The British cotton and textile mission has concluded us visit to India, made at the invitation of the Indian Government to study markets there. In a memorandum left for the Indian Minister for Industry and Commerce, the mission urges reduction of the heavy import duties on high-quality English cloth. India manufactures little or no 'quality' cloth with which such imports might compete, and as the Indians are themselves dependent on the English market Lancashire is hopeful of an amicable settle- ment. The industry, however, is less sanguine about the prospects In the United States. The US Government is pledged not to give any cotton subsidy before the end of July; but no amount of interrogation has Induced the US Government to say what it will do on August 1. According to the US Secretary of Agriculture, a Policy statement will be made in two months. Meanwhile the pre- vailing uncertainty is reflected in Lancashire by mills closing down or working short time. teachers. The president of the National Hairdressers Federation urged a woman's war against 'the long-haired couldn't-care-less attitude that too many men in Britain still hold.' And don't forget to put your clocks forward an hour on Saturday night!.
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