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Show POLITICAL CBISiS : mmm All War Measures of Future May Be Controlled by 1 Special Cabinet LONDON, Dec. 2, 10:23 p. m. The political cmrLs, which is tb o newspaper n KOiiHfltion of the hour, is tfrneral! y bp '"' lieverl to mf.iri the I'ut.iirt! control uf all war measure, hutli military and cco- . nnniie, by a cahinct d i rcrtorttto of f i v i ( mlvifteii ry (iencral Sir Williain li. Hot)-':j Hot)-':j ertnon, chief of tlio imperial Hl.a i'r", and Admiral Sir John li. Jellicoe, first sea Jord. The question of the resignation of F'reniior A.vuuith to tfive pla-'o for David Da-vid Lloyd-Oeore or Andn-rv Fionar ' La w albo is (1 iM'.usHcd, but that Mr. Awi-piith will resign appears improbable. Tho premier had a lori audience with the king today, which furnished a banis 1 for the afternoon papers to predict hi.i : resignation. Hut ho would consult with the kintf, un a mutter of course, over 'J any important government r.haiiL'Cs. A war council was formed in tho cabinet cab-inet last year, but the minimum num-her num-her of five, which .Mr. As(uith then . . announced, has been exceeded, and tho popular imp Tension is that tho council fins ben largely a failure bemuse its decisions were fliibject to debate and '' ratification by tho full cabinet. Tho forecast of tho new war council Premier Asqiiith, David Lloyd-f ieorge, Andrew Jlonar J. aw, Arthur .1. Balfour ''' and 8ir Kdward Carnon still stands, ' but doubts are expressed whether Sir ' I'M ward ('arson, who resigned from the , cabinet a year fto because he was dissatisfied dis-satisfied with the government's policy in tho Ballwina, when Serbia was being : hard pressed, will rejoin. The attacks upon the government have recently ris-en ris-en to tho highest tido attained since the beginning of the war. Although the newspapers have attacked the government gov-ernment and individual members whon- , ever it was thought affairs were going wrong, there has been no press censorship censor-ship whatever on political discussion, . nun tho papers deal with the adminis- - (ration and public men as freely in wartime- as the American papers do in the heat nP a presidential campaign. While- the Northeliffo Press and the Morning Post have made the fiercest as-, as-, saults, even such careful-speaking journals jour-nals as tho Daily Chronicle, the Westminster West-minster (Ja.etto and the Manchester Guardian recently have become critical. ' Tho trend of discontent has been partly . against the government system, partly against certain members of the cabinet. Slowness in Teaching decisions and inaction in-action are tho gist of the indictment. Tho principal counts of this are tlio man power and food questions, while recently dissatisfaction with what some . considered a want of vigor in tho management man-agement of tho navy and weakness in the foreign office has been increasingly expressed. The appointment of a food dictator was announced more than a fortnight ago. but none has been appointed yet. This is one complaint. Tho mi wield i-noss i-noss of a cabinet of twenty-three for managing a great war is a point on which tho critics seem unanimous. As a com; t'T-lialancf? to the critics, there U a w i d.'3 1 ' read and wiyhty, but !e.-n lo.-al, sentirnor't that they fail to credit tii" administration vVh the gr;at work i I has acfornjili-hi-d in the military and financial fields within two years. |