Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-28 | Page 1 | Britain Shakes up Cabinet to Speed Defense Drive

Britain Shakes Up Cabinet To Speed Defense Drive Lord Chatfield Takes Arms Coordination Post; New Demands by Hitler Awaited LONDON, Jan. 28 (AP) Prime Minister Chamberlain shook up his cabinet today to put new drive into the defense and agriculture ministries both vital to Britain's ability to wage war at a time of ' heightening European tension. -Admiral-of the fleet. Lord -Cht-field, one of the key figurea in Britain's Brit-ain's vast naval rearmament program, pro-gram, wa brought Into the cabinet as minister for coordination of defense. de-fense. He replaced Sir Thomas Inskip, who had held the post since March 13, lD.'id. Sir Thomas took the dominions do-minions portfolio, which Malcolm MacDonald had been holding along with the secretaryship of colonies. W. & Morrison, who like Sir Thomas haa been a constant target of criticism, moved from the ministry min-istry of agriculture to become chancellor chan-cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Major Sir Reginald Hugh Dor-man-Smith, former president of the Nation tl Farmers' union and a retired re-tired farmer, replaced Morrison. The aristocratic Earl Winterton waa demoted from the chancellorship chancellor-ship of tha Duchy of Lancaster to tha post of paymaater general. He lost his seat In the cabinet and will receive no pay In hia new position. Tha Earl of Munster was named parliamentary undersecretary of war, replacing Lord Btrathcona and Mount Royal. Lord Strathcona's departure ln-(Contlnutd ln-(Contlnutd en Paso Two) (Column Otia) BRITAIN SPEEDS DEFENSE DRIVE tOeaHaaa riasa Pea Oae dicatsd that War Minister Leslls Hor-Bllsha (till retained Chamberlain' Cham-berlain' eonfldenc dasplt attacks en his alleged delay In equipping Britain for war. Morrison, whoa new post I a cabinet sinecure, was assigned to S- help Lord Chatfield on defense problem prob-lem and to answer questions lor him In th nous of commons, j Mac Dona Id waa relieved of th . dominion portfolio to allow him to 3 devote his full time to th question J of Palestine and other harassing I problems connsctsd with hi' eolo-J eolo-J Blai task. t . Lord Chetflsld, 88, u regarded a I Britain foremost naval strateglat I and ia man responsible for th t, present efficiency of th royal navy. t Hit lor to Make Demands 4 Report from Berlin that Hitler would rnw hi demand for col-oiJes col-oiJes did nothing to brighten th International picture. Soma observers believed th Rome-Berlin axis, strsngthened by th fail of Barcelona, was preparing prepar-ing to attempt a Joint "squeese play" against Franc and Grant Britain similar to th on used In th Cwcho-Blovak crisis. Tho last two day hav seen a burst of speech by British cabinet cab-inet minister warning how powerful power-ful Britain I and declaring that rearmament re-armament Is advancing at full peed. eighteen prominent Englishman representing many field took the unusual sup last night of sending broaaraat for peaca direct to th German people. Tho sponsors Included In-cluded such men as Montagu Nor . nan, governor of tho Bank of England, En-gland, and John Masefield, British post laureate. In an sffort to speed army recruiting, re-cruiting, th war office announced th appointment of Major General H. C B. Wimyss as director of mobilisation. From various official th Britain Brit-ain people received assurances that rearmament was being hastened.