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Appendix A: List of Cabinet Ministers, 1945-51 Appendix A: List of Cabinet Ministers, 1945-51 Prime Minister and Minister of Defence C. R. Attlee Lord President and Leader of the Commons Herbert Morrison Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin Lord Privy Seal Arthur Greenwood Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton President of the Board of Trade Sir Stafford Cripps Lord Chancellor Lord Jowitt First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander Home Secretary J. Chuter Ede Dominions Secretary and Leader of the Lords Viscount Addison Secretary for India and Burma Lord Pethick-Lawrence Colonial Secretary G. H. Hall Secretary for War J. J. Lawson Secretary for Air Viscount Stansgate Secretary for Scotland Joseph Westwood Minister of Labour and National Service G. A. Isaacs Minister of Fuel and Power Emanuel Shinwell Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Tom Williams Changes in 1946: On 4 Oct A. V. Alexander became Minister without Portfolio in preparation for becoming Minister of Defence when the new legislation concerning the post had been enacted. This he was able to do on 20 Dec. But on the earlier date the three Service Ministers (Admiralty, War and Air) were all excluded from the Cabinet. On 4 Oct A. Creech Jones succeeded G. H. Hall as Colonial Secretary. Changes in 1947: On the death of Ellen Wilkinson, George Tomlinson became Minister of Education on 10 Feb. On 17 Apr Arthur Greenwood became Minister without Portfolio and Lord Inman succeeded him as Lord Privy Seal; Lord Pethick-Lawrence retired and was succeeded by Lord Listowel. On 7 July the Dominions Office was renamed the Commonwealth Relations Office. On 14 Aug the post of Secretary for India was abolished, leaving Lord Listowel as Secretary for Burma. On 29 Sept Sir Stafford Cripps took the new post of Minister of Economic Affairs; Harold Wilson succeeded him as President of the Board of Trade; and Arthur Greenwood retired from the 269 270 Appendix A Government. On 7 Oct Lord Inman left the Cabinet and was succeeded as Lord Privy Seal by Viscount Addison, whose place at the Commonwealth Relations Office was taken by Philip Noel-Baker; Arthur Woodburn replaced Joseph Westwood as Secretary for Scotland. On 13 Nov Hugh Dalton resigned from the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir Stafford Cripps was appointed in his place, thus combining it with his existing office. Changes in 1948: On 4 Jan Lord Listowel's post as Secretary for Burma was abolished. On 31 May Hugh Dalton became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Lord Pakenham Minister for Civil Aviation. On 2 July Viscount Addison became Paymaster-General. There were no further Cabinet changes before the 1950 general election. Changes in 1950: On 28 Feb Emanuel Shinwell became Minister of Defence, James Griffiths Colonial Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, and A. V. Alexander (now Viscount Alexander) Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Hugh Dalton became Minister of Town and Country Planning. On 19 Oct Hugh Gaitskell succeeded Sir Stafford Cripps as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Changes in 1951: On 17 Jan Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Labour and National Service. On 31 Jan Hugh Dalton's title was changed to 'Minister of Local Government and Planning', and he assumed some of the respon­ sibilities of the Minister of Health, the new Minister of Health no longer being in the Cabinet. On 9 Mar Herbert Morrison became Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin became Lord Privy Seal, and Viscount Addison became Lord President. Chuter Ede became Leader of the Commons as well as Home Secretary. On 24 Apr after the resignations of Bevan and Wilson, Alfred Robens became Minister of Labour and National Service, and Sir Hartley Shawcross became President of the Board of Trade. On 26 Apr, after Bevin's death, Richard Stokes became Lord Privy Seal; on 6 July he also became Minister of Materials. These details have been compiled from Butler and Sloman, British Political Facts, 1900-1979, pp. 32-6. Appendix B: List of Unpublished Sources Cited 1. State Papers consulted at the Public Record Office, Portugal Street, later Kew: CAB papers of the Cabinet and its sub-committees, and especially CAB 128 (Cabinet Minutes) and CAB 129 (Cabinet Papers). FO files of the Foreign Office PREM Prime Minister's Papers T Treasury papers 2. Labour Party Records consulted at the Party headquarters, Transport House, SW1, later 150 Walworth Road, SE17: Papers of the Chairman, 1945-6, Harold Laski Papers of the General Secretary, Morgan Phillips National Executive Committee Minutes (also on microfiche in Cambridge University Library) Minutes of the Parliamentary Labour Party (on microfilm at BLPES) Minutes of the PLP Liaison Committee (on microfilm at BLPES) 3. Private Papers Addison Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford Attlee Papers and draft autobiography, Churchill College, Cambridge Attlee Papers, consulted at University College, Oxford, now transferred to the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Attlee Personal Papers, by courtesy of Mr Kenneth Harris Bevin Private Papers, FO 800/434ff, Public Record Office Dalton, diary and letters, BLPES (Quotations by courtesy ofthe Librarian) Sir Charles Dixon, 'Memoirs', Royal Commonwealth Society Ede, diary, British Library Gordon Walker Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge Halifax, diary, Hickleton Papers, consulted at City Library, York Creech Jones Papers, Rhodes House, Oxford James Meade, diary, BLPES Morrison Papers, Nuffield College, Oxford (Quotations by courtesy of Sir Norman Chester) Noel-Baker Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge Pethick-Lawrence Papers, Trinity College, Cambridge 4. Unpublished Theses J. T. Grantham, 'The Labour Party and European Unity, 1939-1951' (PhD, Cambridge University, 1977) J. W. Young, 'The Labour Government's Policy Towards France, 1945-51' (PhD, Cambridge, 1983) 271 Appendix C: List of Special Abbreviations used in the Notes BLAddMss British Library (London) Additional Manuscripts BLPES British Library of Political and Economic Science (London) BWC British Washington Committee (on Marshall Aid) c.a. confidential annex (to Cabinet Minutes) CAB Cabinet Records (at PRO) C/E Chancellor of the Exchequer CLC Commonwealth Liaison Committee (on Marshall Aid) CM Cabinet Meeting co Colonial Office CP Cabinet Paper CPGB Communist Party of Great Britain CRO Commonwealth Relations Office DO Defence and Overseas Committee (of the Cabinet) ECA Economic Co-operation Administration (US Government) EPC Economic Policy Committee (of the Cabinet) ER European Recovery ERP European Recovery Programme (that is, Marshall Aid) FO Foreign Office FRUS Foreign Relations of the United States (published documents) HCDeb House of Commons Debates HG Housing Group (of Ministers) HLDeb House of Lords Debates LP Lord President LPCR Labour Party Conference Report Min Minister NEC National Executive Committee (of the Labour Party) OEEC Organisation for European Economic Co-operation PREM Prime Minister's Papers PRO Public Record Office RIIA Royal Institute for International Affairs SI Socialisation of Industries Committee (of the Cabinet) SIS Secretary of State ss Social Services Committee (of the Cabinet) T Treasury TUC Trades Union Congress w.a. written answers (to Parliamentary Questions) 272 Notes and References 1 INTRODUCTION 1. See, for example, W. G. Runciman, Relative Deprivation and Social Justice (1966); and R. T. McKenzie and A. Silver,Angels in Marble (1968). 2. J. Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922-31 (1977). 3. C. T. Stannage, Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition (1980), p. 243. 4. For a valuable recent reassessment, see David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald (1977). 5. R. T. Lyman, The Labour Government of 1924 (1957). 6. For the full text, see Reginald Bassett, 1931: Political Crisis ( 1958), pp. 444-9. 7. 'Jekyll and Hyde': see Labour Party Conference Report [hereinafter LPCR]1935,p.176. 8. D. E. McHenry, The Labour Party in Transition (1938), p. 42. 9. LPCR 1934, p. 14. 10. To write, therefore, as Dr Pimlott has done, that the NJC 'was never out of step with the majority on the NEC', is, in an almost literal sense, to put the cart before the horse. Ben Pimlott, Labour and the Left in the 1930s (Cambridge, 1977), p. 19. 11. R. Postgate, George Lansbury (1951), p. 288. 12. Ibid, p. 291; LPCR 1934, p. 59. 13. P6stgate, George Lansbury, p. 300. 14. Manchester Guardian, 4 Sept 1935. 15. LPCR 1935, pp. 176, 178; but for Bevin's remark, I have quoted the version that appears in Francis Williams, Nothing So Strange ( 1970), p. 138. 16. Manchester Guardian, 2 Oct 1935. 17. The Times, 9 Oct 1935. 18. Manchester Guardian, 9 Oct 1935. 19. 305 HCDeb, 155 (23 Oct 1935). 20. Stannage, Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition, p. 120. 21. The Times, 12 Nov 1935. 22. Stannage, Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition, p. 148. 23. Ibid, p. 263. 24. B. Donoughue and G. W. Jones, Herbert Morrison (1973), p. 240. 25. Francis Williams, Nothing So Strange, p. 135. 26. LPCR 1935, p. 158. 27. LPCR 1934, p. 58. 273 274 Notes and References to pages 8-20 28. On the Socialist League and the Left Book Club seeP. Seyd, 'Factional­ ism within the Labour Party: The Socialist League, 1932-7', in A. Briggs and J. Saville, Essays in Labour History, vol. 3 (1977); S. Samuels, 'The Left Book Club', Journal of Contemporary History, 1 (1966). 29. LPCR 1937, p. 181. 30. On these two by-elections, see lain McLean, 'Oxford and Bridgwater', in C. Cook and J. Ramsden, By-Elections in British Politics (1973). 31. R. Miliband, Parliamentary Socialism ( 1961 ), p. 230. 32. Pimlott, Labour and The Left in the 1930s, p. 194. 33. The first major publication in which they collaborated was G. E. G. Catlin ( ed.) New Trends in Socialism (1935). 34. LPCR 1940, p. 134. 35. LPCR 1942, p. 7; H. Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, 1939-45 (1967), pp. 178ff. (18 July 1941). 36. 'The Indian Political Situation' (2 Feb 1942), quoted in full in P.
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