BRITISH ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1929, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS

PREMIER CONFERS,

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(Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 3

it is understood Mr Baldwin is conferring with his colleagues at five o’clock, after which the expected decision will be announced.

The “ Central News ” agency understands the Ministers are formally placing their individual resignations fn Mr Baldwin’s hands this afternoon. During the week-end Mr Baldwin was in touch with Lord Stamfordham.

EDITORIAL COMMENT.

MR MACDONALD’S DUTY. (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON; June 2.

The “ Daily News',” in a leader oil Mr Baldwin’s decision to resign, says: •• Jt is Mr MacDonald’s duty aifter constituting a Cabinet, to produce a programme in which Liberal-minded members, who will not support Socialism, may co-operate to obviate an immediate Parliamentary collapse. The Liberal Party holds the balance and is pledged to free trade, electoral reform, peace, disarmament, and the conquest of unemployment. It would he unworthy of its history if it threw out a Government implementing these poli-' cies. Mr MacDonald must remember he is the servant of Parliament and the nation, not of the party executive. ’The Liberals will not submit again to the indignities to which Labour subjected them in 1924.