ALL PARTIES UNITED.
By an outstanding act of selflessness and high courage Mr Chamberlain has resigned -from the Prime Ministership of Great Britain to enable a Government of all the parties to be formed. It must be a matter of supreme satisfaction that such a course has been found practicable. The LabourParty executive, meeting at Bournemouth/ decided to enter a Government under a new Prime Minister. The Party’s antipathy to Mr Chamberlain was unhappily far too pronounced to enable it to accept his leadership, but Mr Chamberlain, placing the national interests above self, handed his resignation to the King who, has commissioned Mr Churchill to form a Ministry. That act illustrates the nobility of character of Mr Chamberlain were that needed: indeed. his trying years' as Prime Minister have been characterised by acts of supreme courage which stamp him as a great man. If Hitlerimagined he saw in the debate in the House of Commons this week any sign-of disunity in Britain he has been disillusioned: the nation is steeled by the great task before it, and France no less so. With all the political parties fully sharing in the Government, the nation can rest assured that the war will be prosecuted with the A 7 igour and determination it wishes. '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 138, 11 May 1940, Page 6
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211ALL PARTIES UNITED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 138, 11 May 1940, Page 6
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