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ex-rail wayman are Mr. Wilson's choice for joint Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Transport. The first, Mr. Stephen Swingler, is one of a group of left-wing M.P.s drafted into the new Government; he is a planner and an ardent supporter of nationalization. The son of a clerygyman, he was educated at Stowe and Oxford and was a tank Captain during the War. He has been in the Commons since 1945 and held Newcastle under Lyme with an increased majority last week. He is 49.
The other joint secretary, Lord Lindgren, held office as a junior minister in the Labour Governments of 1945-51, He was parliamentary secretary to the Ministries of National Insurance, Civil Aviation, Town and Country Planning
and, with this and local government work, has considerable administrative experience. Aged 63, he was created a life peer in 1961 (he was formerly Mr. George Samuel Lindgren) and has a strong railway background. He became an L.N.E.R. clerk on leaving school and later a national executive member of the Railway Clerks' Association; he was a deputy regional commissioner during the War. Lord Lindgren has been treasurer of the T.S.S.A. since 1956.