LABOUR ATTITUDE TO THRONE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 24, 12 February 1937, Page 11

LABOUR ATTITUDE TO THRONE

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Accepts it Without Argument in Pres.ent Form REGENCY BILL IN L0RDS

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LONDON, Feb. 10. The British Labour Partjr's attitude to the Throne was stated hy Lord Snell when the House of Lords passed the second reading of the Regency Bill. He said: "We accept . it- without argument, without hesitation, in its present form, but if circumstances should arise where a change was made in the relationship of the King to Parliament we would require revision of our attitude. "We recognise that this at prespnt is not a matter for us alone but also for. the Dominions," he added, "and as there is no reason to suppose that -the Dominions are not fully in agreement with the proposals the Labour Party will assisc the passage of the Bill." Lord Donoughmore questioned the provision that tho Regent must be the next in suceessipn to the Throne wlxo was not disqualified by age or in other ways mentionea. He asked peers to visualise the situation under the Act if William IY. had developed -an illness and a Regency had become necessary. Princess Victoria, who was the immediate heir, was under age; therefore the Regent would have been. the, Duke of Cumherland, in which case there would have been a revolution. He was a gallant soldier but a bitter party politician and unpopular. Lord Halifax replied that the objections to making a Regency automatie were less than those" to "making it solective-