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When Sir David Eccles went from the post of Minister of Education to the Presidency of the Board of Trade he was generally congratulated on his promotion. Subsequently he left the Board of Trade to become Minister of Education. This, we were told, was a further promotion — the importance of education happened to be increasing just as rapidly as that of Sir David. Since that time education has become so important that it rates not a mere Ministry but a Department of State. The head of this Department, Mr Anthony Crosland, has now become President of the Board of Trade, and the lobby correspondents have hailed his promotion. Evidently Trade is booming.