Show DONT LIKE LANSDOWNE LONDON PRESS EXCEPT TIMES IS BITTER Standard Says His Appointment an Amost Inconcelvablo I Blunder De Glaring He Unfitted for Position London Nov 1H the Dally Telegraphs Tele-graphs announcement had been a mere feeler to ascertain the temper of the public toward Lord Lansdownea appointment he would certainly never have became Minister of Foreign Affairs Af-fairs but although the appointment tu tho secretaryship has not yet been officially 1 c 6 n nrmen Itls rfcOTpteuVon oil sides as a settled thing The Standard which says 4t t has learned that Lord Sclbornc Under Secretory Sec-retory of State for the Colonies and William St John Broderick Under Secretary Sec-retary of State for Foreign Affairs will enter the Cabinet and that Charles Thompson Ritchie president of the Board of Trade will be given c higher post says The appointment ot the Marquis of Lansdowne to her Maj its principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is an almost Inconceivable blunder Ho has neither the character quallllca tlons nor experience for such a position posi-tion The only plausible excuse for the < ppolntment is that Lord Salisbury will still control the Foreign ofiice while Lord Lansdowne rpllevcs him of his routine duties The Dally Mal which professes to be unable to believe that such boIce an appointment ap-pointment Is possible says I Lord Lansdowne Is appointed Foreign Secretary Sec-retary and some other gentleman of agreeable manners Is made FIrst Lord of the Admiralty the country may lament la-ment a great opportunity lost forever The Dally Chronicle says I Is presumably pre-sumably the explanation of tho control con-trol of foreign affairs which would have been Impossible of Mr Chamberlain Chamber-lain had been appointed In fact Lord Salisbury will still be the Foreign Minister Min-ister with Lord Lansdowne as his hs cleric Tho Times to a large extent takes the Iew of the Liberal organs namely that Lord Salisbury will now find time to be the real Premier and to exercise greater control over the whole Cabinet Cabi-net Instead of n mere nominal control I believes the report of Lord Lans dou nes appointment correct and defends de-fends him against newspaper attacks saying These critics would find It hard to Indicate whom they consldqr better fitted for thepost After naming nam-ing several negative qualities for the portfolio the Times says It thinks It ungenerous to criticise until the country coun-try has seen what the new Minister will accomplish |