Four Ministers in Whitehall reshuffle

Author: H. B. Boyne, Political Correspondent
Date: Apr. 8, 1971
From: The Daily Telegraph(Issue 36054)
Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
Document Type: Article
Length: 713 words
Source Library: Telegraph Media Group
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Four Ministers in Whitehall reshuffle

Four Ministers in Whitehall reshuffle

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By H. B. BOYME, Political Correspondent C^OUR Ministers are given new appointments and a backbencher, Mr Geoffrey Johnson Smith, gains office for the first time as the result of big changes in Whitehall arrangements for the supply of defence equipment and civil aircraft. These vvere announced in a White Paper yesterday [Details—P8|. The Ministry of Aviation Supply is being abolished on May 1. In the meantime, Lord Carrington, 51, will become its Minister in addition to his present

By H. B. BOYME, Political Correspondent C^OUR Ministers are given new appointments and a backbencher, Mr Geoffrey Johnson Smith, gains office for the first time as the result of big changes in Whitehall arrangements for the supply of defence equipment and civil aircraft. These vvere announced in a White Paper yesterday [Details—P8|. The Ministry of Aviation Supply is being abolished on May 1. In the meantime, Lord Carrington, 51, will become its Minister in addition to his present

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post as Secretary for Defence. As...

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Boyne, H. B., Political Correspondent. "Four Ministers in Whitehall reshuffle." Daily Telegraph, 8 Apr. 1971, pp. [1]+. link.gale.com/apps/doc/IO0703935963/AONE?u=gale&sid=bookmark-AONE. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
  

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