Abstract
IT was announced on May 1 that the King has been pleased to approve the following appointments: Minister of State, Lord Beaverbrook; Minister of Aircraft Production, Lieut.-Colonel J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon (see NATURE, 146, 554; 1940: 147, 344; 1941); Minister of Shipping and Minister of Transport, Mr. F. J. Leathers; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport, ColonelJ. J. Llewellin; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production, Mr. Frederick Montague. The King has been pleased to approve that the dignity of a barony of the United Kingdom be conferred upon Mr. Leathers, and that Mr. Leathers and Colonel Llewellin be sworn of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. Mr. II. H. Cross, formerly Minister of Shipping, has been selected to fill the post of High Commissioner in the Commonwealth of Australia for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. It is added that the amalgamation of the two Departments of Shipping and Transport for the purposes of the War will be effected forthwith. The details of this process will be worked out as speedily as possible and when the process is complete the combined Ministry will become the Ministry of War-time Communications.
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