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Production. For over a year the Churchill Government has faced a heavy barrage from the Left on the question of production. As a last resort Oliver Lyttelton was recalled from Cairo to replace Lord Beaverbrook, and last week he formed a Joint War Production Staff to "clamp together" the needs of the three fighting services...
...beginning of summer. And the next shake-up would probably send Churchill out of No. 10 Downing St., if not out of the Cabinet altogether. The Rightists would make a last-ditch fight to have Sir John Anderson (perhaps the most powerful behind-the-scenes Cabinet figure) or Oliver Lyttelton named Prime Minister, but the odds were on Sir Stafford Cripps, especially if his mission to India was a success...
...around for new administrative talent, cabled Casey an offer to become Minister of State for Great Britain's War Cabinet in the Middle East. It was the first time Britain had offered to take a Dominion statesman into the Home Government. Minister Casey was to replace Captain Oliver Lyttelton (Britain's new Minister of Production) in the vital liaison job in Cairo...
...Cripps & Lyttelton. The Prime Minister cut his War Cabinet from nine to seven ministers. The appointment of Socialist Sir Stafford Cripps to sit among these seven as Lord Privy Seal was sensational, since he was also to replace the Prime Minister as the Government's representative in the House of Commons...
...other new appointment to the War Cabinet was that of spruce, red-haired Oliver Lyttelton as Minister of State, concerned with production. Onetime organizer of the world tin cartel, he replaced Production Minister Lord Beaverbrook, who was detailed to Washington as production liaison officer...